Florida Herald and Southern Democrat  St Augustine, Thursday January 31, 1839

Died

In this city at 3 o'clock this afternoon Ephraim Hart, of the city of Utica, NY aged 64 years. The deceased was formerly a distinguished citizen of the state of New York, having been a member of the Senate, and also a member of the Board of Canal Commissioners of that State. He has also been favorably known to the citizens of this place as an honest and upright man, and as one of the first who introduced into this Territory the Morus Multicanlis, now so extensively and profitably cultivated.