Adjourned Fall Term of 1882
Monday January 22nd 1882
to appoint Mr S.P. Bevill a Master in Chancery of this Court
Jany 22 1883 S.Y. Finley Atty
Taylor & Sanchez Attys
W.W. Hampton
J.H. Goss
Asby & Thrasher
Whereupon S.P. Bevill being now in open court was
duly sworn as by law required to be
In Circuit Court of Alachua County
5th Judicial Circuit of Florida
In Chancery
It is hereby ordered that S.P. Bevill be and he is hereby
appointed and authorized as a Master in Chancery of the
Circuit Court of Alachua County in the 5th Judicial Circuit
of Florida in Chancery generally in all causes which may
hereafter be submitted to him for the purpose of taking
testimony therein and accountings therein and generally
to do all things pertaining to the position or office of
Master in Chancery
In open court this 22nd day of January AD
1883
Enoch J. Vann
Judge
3rd Circuit presiding
To Honorable E.J. Vann and members of the
Gainesville Bar the Committee appointed by your Honor
to prepare and present to the court suitable and
appropriate token and expression of regard for our
deceased Brother Barton H. Thrasher who died in this
city on the night of the 26th day of June AD 1883 aged
45 years 10 month & 27 days respectfully submit the following
as their report
Colonel Thrasher was borne in Morgan County Ga
on the 29th day of July 1836 he attended Penfield College
(now Mercer University) Ga & afterwards the Law School at
Louisville Ky in 1854 In 1856 he moved to Troy Ala where
he engaged in the prctice of Law for two years he then
married & turned his attention to farming until 1866 at which
time he resumed the practice of his chosen profession Deceased
remained in Atlanta until 1876 when he moved to Florida
with a view of engaging in Orange Culture. But finding
this vocation ill suited to the natural inclinations of
his cultured mind he again determined to resume the practice
of law. In the fall of 1877 he opened a Law office in | 
