James Tracy, . . . a native of North Carolina, . . . was born in the year 1783, . . . and was the son of Nathaniel and Mary Tracy, the former of whom was a native of Maryland. . . . James and Mary Tracy removed from Henry County, Ky., to Johnson County, Ind., in 1827, and became early settlers of Pleasant Township. They located on a farm five miles north of Franklin, where [James] died February 14, 1833. . . . James Tracy was a farmer by occupation, and a whig in politics. He was a soldier in the War of 1812.
