MATHEW J. TRACY, . . . son of James and Mary (Tanner) Tracy, both of whom were natives of North Carolina. His mother was born December 31, 1788, and was the daughter of Josiah and Martha (Wooten) Tanner, who were both natives of Virginia. Both of his grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War. . . . His maternal grandfather, Josiah Tanner, was wounded in the battle of King's Mountain, in the month of September, 1780. . . . Josiah Tanner was born in 1744, and was married to Martha Wooten, in 1767. He died in Kentucky in 1818.
[Note: Nearly all the dates in this biography are quoted differently by both Mathew and by other, older, siblings in other, more primary, records.]