When Mary Ham Brackett was born on 15 July 1802, in Otisfield, Cumberland, Maine, United States, her father, Nathaniel Brackett, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Lewis, was 29. She married Jonathan Tracy on 6 December 1844, in Poland, Androscoggin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 3 November 1881, in Wales, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, at the age of 79.