[Zach Wheat]

Zachariah was actually his dad's name who then named him Zachariah as well. Family tradition says that he was named "Zach" although he signed documents and went by both Zach and Zack as well. He seems to have preferred Zach. Zachariah is actually the correct name for "Zach" Wheat although the MO legislature made a minor boo boo when naming MO Highway 13 the "Zack" Wheat Memorial Highway.

The stretch of Highway that was named for him ran from his farm in Polo, MO where his wife (who was his second cousin) would make him hold out for higher pay during his most prductive years and Hamilton, MO where he was born. Coincidentally, Zach is buried in the same cemetery (Forest Hill in Kansas City, MO) as the great Satchel Paige.