New Bern Obituary Index

The New Bern Obituary Index helps users find obituaries or death notices located in the newspapers of New Bern. The dates given in the index are the dates of the obituary or death notice, not the actual dates of death.

The Obituary Index includes obituaries and death notices from 1751 through the current year.

Also included are several obituary "hoaxes" or death notices of people who were actually still living. Two such cases are the "obituaries" of Jimmie Lillian Roll in 1968 and John Koonce in 1888. For the trivia buff, the shortest name in our database is Ben, a slave, whose death was reported on April 25 and 26, 1848. The longest name in our database is Byron Hiram Ariom Long Myram William John Adrian Livingston Corbett, whose death is reported in the Tribune of August 17, 1935.

Copies of the obituaries or death notices listed in the index can be obtained by sending a check or money order for $2.00 for each notice to:

Kellenberger Room
New Bern-Craven County Public Library
400 Johnson Street
New Bern, NC 28560

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Order by: ID A-Z ID Z-A Published A-Z Published Z-A Last Name A-Z Last Name Z-A First Name A-Z First Name Z-A Middle/Maiden Name A-Z Middle/Maiden Name Z-A Year Min-Max Year Max-Min

Last Name	First Name	Middle/Maiden Name	Year	Search	Clear

Records Found: 186286

Last Name	First Name	Middle/Maiden Name	Month	Day	Year	Newspaper	Page	Column	URL
Ward	J.	M., Jr.	5	15	1928	MNB	6	4	newspapers#mnb
Ward	Clara		7	19	1954	SJ	6	6	newspapers#sj
Ward	Giles	F., Jr.	2	3	1865	NCT	2	2	newspapers#nct
Ward	George		7	21	1905	NBDJ	2	2	newspapers#nbdj
Ward	Patrick	Trenwith	9	15	1945	SJ	5	6	newspapers#sj
Ward	Giles	F., Jr.	2	14	1865	NCT	2	2	newspapers#nct
Ward	Carrie	Louise Schowlenberger	6	29	1957	SJ	5	7	newspapers#sj
Ward	Fred		9	22	1903	NBWJ	1	3	newspapers#nbwj
Ward	Patrick	Trenwith	9	16	1945	SJ	2	7	newspapers#sj
Ward	Guy	O.	8	5	1968	SJ	2	2	newspapers#sj
Ward	Oscar	Joseph	8	25	1962	SJ	7	3	newspapers#sj
Ward	Anthony	Dean "Sweet"	11	17	2017	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Ward	Guy	Thomas	6	12	1997	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Ward	Hamilton		10	4	1823	Sentinel	3	4	newspapers#cc
Ward	Harvey		11	11	1992	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Ward	Robert	Franklin	3	11	2008	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Ward	Mary		4	16	1975	SJ	1B	1-2	newspapers#sj
Ward	Harvey	James	11	12	1992	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Ward	Johnnie	Lee	7	3	2007	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Ward	Hazel		11	24	2004	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj
Ward	Alice		7	26	1923	SJ	3	2	newspapers#sj
Ward	Mary	F.	1	4	1936	SJ	8	2	newspapers#sj
Ward	Patrick	Trenwith	9	19	1945	SJ	2	3	newspapers#sj
Ward	Alfred	Decatur	4	17	1940	SJ	1	3	newspapers#sj
Ward	Sophia	J.	1	3	1928	SJ	6	1,2	newspapers#sj