When James J Wooten was born in 1772, in Wake, North Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Wootten, was 44 and his mother, Tabitha Bradford, was 46. He married Mary Smith about 1795, in United States. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1822, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States, at the age of 50.