Zachariah Wheat

Birth Date

1806-07-26

Death Date

1877-04-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Shelby County, Kentucky, attorney. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary Ann Monroe Wheat in Shelby County on July 22, 1831. Father of Laura Wheat. Married to Anna M. Logan Wheat in Shelby County on November 1, 1857. Father of Benjamin L. Wheat. Attorney in Adair County, Kentucky, in 1850. Circuit judge of the Eighth Judicial District in 1850. Circuit judge of the Fifth Judicial District from 1851 to 1856. Attorney in Adair County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, First District, p. 11B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 96.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, Shelbyville, p. 408A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000259275, p. 12.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000469187, p. 121.
Find A Grave, "Zachariah Wheat (1806-1877)," Memorial #55506723, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55506723 (accessed July 10, 2019).
Kurt X. Metzmeier, "Judges of the Kentucky Circuit Courts, 1831-1861," Kentucky Ancestors: A Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Spring 2008), 156-8.

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