Sandy Wyatt 1952-2023

Sandy Wyatt

1952 - 2023

Sandy Wyatt, a pillar of our community, passed away peacefully at the age of 71 on Wednesday, November 22, 2023. He leaves behind a legacy of compassion, leadership, love, and humility that has touched the lives of countless individuals.

Born on May 23, 1952, Sandy was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and cherished friend. His impact on our community was profound, and his memory will forever be etched in the hearts of those who had the privilege of knowing him.

Sandy dedicated his life to making a positive difference in the lives of others. Many were impacted by his passion for music which he used to show love to thousands through his ministry at The Farmers’ Opry in Chumuckla.  Over 100 nationally renowned country music artists from around the world performed at the Opry; Sandy and his family served nearly half a million people during the Opry tenure.  His influence and connections within the musical industry helped launch the music careers of numerous artists and musicians.

Whether through his involvement in local organizations (he loved Santa Rosa County), charity work, or simply lending a helping hand to neighbors in need, he demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the well-being of those around him. His selflessness and generosity were unparalleled, and he leaves behind a legacy of kindness that will continue to inspire generations to come.  

Beyond his leadership roles, Sandy was the epitome of humility. Despite his numerous accomplishments, he remained a humble and down-to-earth individual, always putting others before himself. His ability to connect with people and make them feel valued was a testament to his genuine and warm-hearted nature.

One of Sandy's greatest gifts was his ability to touch the lives of thousands. As a mentor, friend, and confidant, he had a unique way of making everyone feel seen and heard. The impact of his kindness rippled through the community, leaving behind a legacy of love, unity, and a shared sense of purpose.

Some of Sandy’s favorite pastimes include fishing for bream and crappie with his close friends and growing tomatoes to share with those he loved.

Sandy was a beloved family man. He leaves behind his wife, Nancy; two children, Jeremy (Rilee) Wyatt and Rhonda (Billy) Mayne; two sisters, Tammy (Scott) Day and Shirley (Tom) Moody; nephew, Don Braley; and four grandchildren: Chase, Cameron, Cort, and Salter, who will forever cherish the memories of his wisdom, love, and guidance.  Sandy also leaves behind his sister-in-law, Lana (Mike) Martin; and brothers-in-law, Jimmy (Sharon) Howell, Stephen (Gail) Howell, and Gordan (Lana) Howell, who was like a brother to him – they were business partners for 40 years.  Sandy is preceded in death by his mother, Martha Carpenter; his father, William Wyatt; brother, Wade Wyatt; sister, Linda Sue Reeves; niece, Jennifer Bryant; and beloved grandfather, Morgan Wyatt.

Visitors are welcome to pay their honors at Immanuel Baptist Church in Pace (4187 US-90) on Tuesday afternoon, November 28, 2023, from 2:00 pm-4:00 pm.  A memorial service will be held immediately afterward at 4:00 pm with a private burial to follow on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 for family only.  Dress is casual – Sandy requested blue jeans and t-shirts.  

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Santa Rosa Kids House (srkidshouse.org).

2023 Santa Rosa Creek Fest

Nov. 18-19 the Creek Band of Santa Rosa County briught their culture to life. The band also, for the first time. Re-enacted the "Battle of Chumuckla" (essentially a skirmish to flush out some hostile Creeks that only recently had evaded and survived the Battle at Horshoe Bend.  Americans and their allied Indians fell upon the Chumuckla village. The main target in the villae was 9 renegades that did not accept the peace treaty. The last were eventually cornered in Pensacola and were killed. One source says the surviving village members were sent by the Spanish to Galveston, Texas. Many of the local band escaped calture and their bloodlines are still among us.

The Battle and more from the day are featured in the ALBUM linked here. Video included.

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Your 8th Grade Exam (can you pass?)

What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895...

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?

This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA . It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society
and Library in Salina , and reprinted by the Salina Journal.



8th Grade Final Exam: Salina , KS - 1895 

Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph.
4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of 'lie,''play,' and 'run.'
5. Define case; illustrate each case.
6 What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.


Arithmetic (Time,1 hour 15 minutes)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. Deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. Wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. For tare?
4. District No 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find the cost of 6,720 lbs. Coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft.. Long at $20 per metre?
8. Find the bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance of which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.


U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States 
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. 
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton , Bell , Lincoln , Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.


Orthography (Time, one hour) 
[Do we even know what this is??]
1. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication.
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u.' (HUH?)
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane , vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks
and by syllabication.


Geography (Time, one hour)
1 What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas ?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America 
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa , Denver,  Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco. 
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.

Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete. 
Gives the saying 'he only had an 8th grade education' a whole new meaning, doesn't it?!

Gardening the Panhandle - Florida Extension Service

Use the menu to see the whole play-list.  ... The place to learn.

https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/hort/

SAVE THE COLLARDS

A BUZZCREEK AFFILIATE

The Save the Collards Foundation is proud to support a world of conflict free collards.  Eat your collards in peace.  Drink the "pot likker" - not the "kewlaide". The CRUDDS CREED .. "Eat your vegetables".  Visit Crudds -- See this page.
BUZZCREEK.com  Chumuckla.com  InCountry  ME3tv (youtube channel) Jay Historical

BLUE COLLAR VOICE

Campbell Christmas  (12ponder.com got you here ) --  UPDATES --- Valentines and more.

SUGGESTED Research for Land Buying - Chumuckla

 

Some EXCELLENT contacts to help you FIND a land purchase in the Chumuckla Area.

Harrell Downey -- Developer ...///  Gladys McGee Southland Realty (850 380 4914)///

Lotsandland.com  .../// Scott English (850 380 9436). 

 

ALSO -- Check the SR County Property Appraiser's MAP site and search the area of interest. Learn the tools. It is not hard but a little patience and you can find a lot of good information about location, location and location.

SRCPA.org is the Property Appraiser Site. 

 If you want YOUR family property listed here in the blog - just let Vic know. (no charge) 

LAND FOR SALE - CHUMUCKLA (Campbell) .    For the Chumuckla Property - contact Vic Campbell. Text 850 994 6120 . (email vic@buzzcreek.com) 

This is being marketed by the JL Campbell Family under Trust Junction 197, LLC

The 20 and 14.5 Acres are suitable for a maximum of 3 residential homes. Tax on all 60 acres remaining as ag is about $2300

Drones and MORE. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

THERE is potential the entire remaining 50 acres can be commercial (with covenants)

Home size restrictions and covenants for residential will apply. 

Text Vic Campbell 850 994 6120 to learn more.

or email vic@buzzcreek.com

This is not listed with a realtor. But your realtor can talk to me.  

Parces sizes are open to discuss for first buyers.

More on these properties - though some is dated

at  THIS LINK

Community Give Back

Ms. Marilyns Little Olives is asking the community to stand with My Father's Arrows and help them grow. They are working to help children have a better future. The waiting list to house these children is growing. 

Please join my Little Olives in making a donation to help this mission grow. Remember Chumuckla, God, Family, and Community. https://myfathersarrows.org/

Ms. MARILYN'S LITTLE OLIVES. A HIGH Expectations childcare in Chumuckla.

https://www.facebook.com/Ms-Marilyns-Little-Olives-Daycare-285168595770168/

Ms. MARILYNS Little Olives. The future belongs to the children. Ms Marilyn hopes you too will consider supporting My Father's Arrows in their mission to make a home and build for the future of children at the margins. MFA is a children's home right in our backyard, and the work they do is a calling. They do it well, with total focus. Learn more about them at ...

CRUDDS - For the People. Ballot 2020

CRUDDS media team FIRST PODCAST.  Our review of the ballot and how you might consider voting.  This is suggested ballot choices.  Richard Wood​ of judgingshadows.blogspot.com and Dick MIller, a retired  serial inventor and "father of the modern baseball", and Vic Campbell​ bring their immeasurable combined intellect to the people for consideration.  The ballot for our district may include offices not listed for other districts. CRUDDS "Chumuckla Reprobates Utopian Debate and Discussion Society" has secret rules of membership and caricature that nobody remembers.  We meet almost weekly over coffee or other liquids to pursue a goal of World Peace.  

THIS FIRST EPISODE is quite long. We know one of our founding members, Roy Allen​ will enjoy the entire discussion.  The first third is about the ballot and our suggestions for support. The middle third drifts into some global issues and then a discussion of baseball history.  The latter third on the time-line gets into some of Richard Wood's introduction to mayhem and pandemonium of our local past history.  We hope you allow yourself to relax and learn about the tensions in our present and past.  Maybe you will feel as if you are in the conversation. 

This episode became primarily an AUDIO podcast because the camera failed.  Meanwhile the recorder captured the discussion. Photos are added along with text to carry some of the feel for the CRUDD ambience. Feel free to criticise, agree, disagree or praise our brilliance.   

USE THE TIMELINE track to move the play cursor to other parts of the conversation at any time.

Our Conservative advisor suggested on the Judge appointments to the courts that we could safely agree to vote YES on all of them. ... Only one did a CRUDD suggest a NO and only because of 20 years on the bench. We all like term limits but Judges are not legislators which is where most of the term limit issues are of interest.  IF you have a good judge - keep them if they are healthy.

LINKS--

me3tv.org (youtube channel of Vic Campbell)

judgingshadows.blogspot.com (blog of mayhem by Richard Wood

Buzzcreek.com  ... Vic's main page and history DVD's

12ponder.com  ... Vic's list of interests and links for local exploring

CHUMUCKLA - facebook link

Below suggested votes for the Amendments for the basic conservative. 

....... note --- our CRUDDS thought "NO" for number 4 was a good idea because we hire our legislators to debate these issues and make things happen. They need to debate the issues.  I think they do need to publicise clearly what amendments they are debating so the public can respond to their legislator. But having the public vote on most of these is an exercise in futility.  The public will not grasp the issues except for a very few who will have little effect on voting any of them down.

In the video we discuss these and why we suggest what we do (all like below except #4)

LAND FOR SALE - CHUMUCKLA (Campbell) (Salter) and MULAT (Gatewood)

 If you want YOUR family property listed here in the blog - just let Vic know. (no charge) 

Salter Property nice location

THIS SOLD IN NOV 2021

Smart thing -- get the land with the pond. Get electric and a well. Put in your RV Barn with an RV to hold you until you get your house built.  Later sell the RV - which if you do it right -you bought used anyway.....  This is only ONE way to think of transitioning to a nice estate in the country. 

TOO LATE. SOMEBODY SMART BOUGHT IT INSTEAD OF HAGGLING. IT IS SOLD

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Here are properties in Vic's family that are for sale.  the Avalon Property  near Mulat Bayou is under McIntosh Realtors .   The below aerials provide a wide overview of the property for you to determine you want to know more.    For the Chumuckla Property - contact Vic Campbell. Text 850 994 6120 . (email vic@buzzcreek.com) 

    For the Mulat Property contact Nathan McIntosh Realtor. 

This is being marketed by the JL Campbell Family under Trust Junction 197, LLC

The 20 and 14.5 Acres are suitable for a maximum of 3 residential homes. Tax on all 60 acres remaining as ag is about $2300

Home size restrictions will apply. 

Text Vic Campbell 850 994 6120 to learn more.

or email vic@buzzcreek.com

This is not listed with a realtor. But your realtor can talk to me.  WE CAN PARCEL sizes until lots are sold. 

More on these properties - though some is dated

at  THIS LINK

The property below is in Avalon Beach between I-10 and Mulat Road.  The Gatewood family is divesting of estate property . Handled by McIntosh Realtors.

THE Bayou Property in the lower photo is sold.

Taxes ON 35 acres on Tinsley Lane about $2600. Nice superb refurbished cottage comes with it.

Property on the bayou has SOLD to a wise buyer now holding land worth twice what he paid  in 2021......   

A Video Playlist for Chumucklan Folk

 This collection contains many insights into the people and places of NW Florida including Chumuckla.

NW FLORIDA PLAYLIST FROM ME3TV.org 

CHURCH MUSIC - Downhome

Rucker Talks about NW FLA Histories

Dr. Brian Rucker, noted NW FLA historian and Professor at PSC and UWF - shares some insight with familiar NW Florida landmarks. 

MORE ME3TV PLAYLISTS by TOPIC

On this page you will find a number of PLAYlists of videos mostly made by ME3TV.org (and Vic Campbell).    There is a lot of great local information and entertainment in these collections. Enjoy Living The Life in NW Florida !

Other blogs by Vic Campbell

IN COUNTRY WITH UNCLE VIC ... a collection of histories, interviews, reflections and general topics that may be interesting to some.    Light reading for the armchair ruralist.

MORE PICTURES FROM CHUMUCKLA SCHOOL - back in the day

EVEN MORE Pictures from CHUMUCKLA SCHOOL - back in the old days

Some more of VICS PROJECTS AND INTERESTS

THE CHUMUCKLA TEESPRING STORE
items to buy related to Chumuckla

Tim Burch. 1949 - 2020

My Chumuckla classmate. A good friend . A great family.  At Jr. College, TIM AND I worked for the new Public TV Station WSRE . I was a photographer's helper.

Tim had a job reviewing ALL the travel films that filled a lot of hours of public broadcast then. This was to be sure they were not going to break, were complete, and did not have some embarrassing sabatoge film spliced in that reflect poorly on the station. 

Tim visited about every country there was, by film.  Later in life, he actually visited many. But, now ... he gets to visit the best of all, and not by film. Peace for your journey, Tim.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/tuscaloosa-al/timothy-burch-9369882

Lena - and Memories of Chumuckla

"In Remembrance"

Copyright © 2009 Myrtlene P. Langham. All rights reserved

This was the last photo I made of the Old Gin, in Feb. 1972

"Once full of life, now sat in silence"

The Era of the Cotton Gin was over. The spirit once felt by everyone was no longer there. Like a burning candle that no longer lights the darkness. It was now over and done.

Old Gin,You are remembered. Old Gin, You are missed.
Nothing can ever take the rightful place you held in the heart of the Chumuckla Community.


The Good Ole days
"Part I"

The Chumuckla Cotton Gin was a "highlight" in it's early years.

People would acutally travel a great distance to the area just to see it in operation.

There was always a hustle and bustle when it was time to "gin cotton.

During the day it was a very busy place. At night it was all lit up and noisy but with all that brought the
curiosity and excitement, especially for me. I was very young when I first saw the cotton gin and I think because I was a child the lights and the noise attracted me. After a while the sound was a comfort to me and I enjoyed it.

With the process of bailing cotton late at night, sometimes very late, you would think the noise would keep you awake but this was something that became second nature somehow.

At night while listening to the sound of the cotton gin, it became my lullaby and I would drift off into a peaceful sleep.

In Memory Of: My Parents
Joseph & Blanchie Pendleton
"Residents of Chumuckla

Copyright © 2009 Myrtlene P. Langham. All rights reserved

ca 2012 - Lena Langham (Myrtlene Pendleton) Exploring Santa Rosa History

BELOW ADD IN WILL BE EDITED TO FORMAT LATER.....


Chumuckla School-Memories By: MPL38


HELLO CHUMUCKLA!
"I'm back"


"Our 50th Class Reunion for 1958"
This is for the memories of all my classmates, celebrated-4-26-08




"My Personalized Indian Mandella"

I was honored to receive this oil painting made for me some years ago. With the History of Native Americans living in and around Chumuckla, I can't think of a better place to show it off than right here on
"A Place Called Chumuckla".



Fifth Grade, Class, 1951, sweet memories. I loved going to school.
In this photo, I am on the top row, third person from the right.
Our teacher, Mr Winoker is standing to the far right on the top row.

"My Chumuckla School"

This was the only school I attended from 1946 to 1956 and then
I moved away. I have so many happy memories that I can't explain the
meaning of how much those memories have meant to me on this
page for lack of space. Perhaps later on I can share a lot more.
"This photo was made in 1972"

Copyright © 2009 Myrtlene P. Langham. All rights reserved