When Ralph Burton Tracy was born on 29 May 1901, in Vermont, United States, his father, Burton Tracy, was 21 and his mother, Margaret Green, was 19. He married Marion Elizabeth Quimby on 9 September 1922, in Fairfield, Franklin, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 28 February 1977, in Bakersfield, Franklin, Vermont, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Fairfield, Franklin, Vermont, United States.