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
Wells	Percy	R.	7	22	1980	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Wells	Ralph	C.	9	24	1973	SJ	6	3	newspapers#sj
Wells	Ralph	Coley	9	25	1973	SJ	2	3	newspapers#sj
Wells	Redmond		11	29	1883	NBWJ	2	3	newspapers#nbwj
Wells	Revenna	Sutton	7	24	1976	SJ	2A	3	newspapers#sj
Wells	Richard		10	14	1969	SJ	2	2	newspapers#sj
Wells	Tempie	Health	11	24	1991	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Wells	W.	W.	6	15	1864	NCT	2	2	newspapers#nct
Wells	Hazel	Bryan	1	16	1932	MNB	1	3	newspapers#mnb
Wells	Victor	R.	8	29	2021	SJ	4A	--	newspapers#sj
Wells	Walter	Dean	8	8	1985	SJ	2A	--	newspapers#sj
Wells	James [Jimmy]	Darwin	9	16	1963	SJ	1	2	newspapers#sj
Wells	William		1	6	1920	MNB	3	5,6	newspapers#mnb
Wells	William	Delanore	8	22	1986	SJ	4A	--	newspapers#sj
Wells	William	M.	4	25	1936	Tribune	6	2	newspapers#trib
Wells	William	Otis	5	11	1972	SJ	2	2	newspapers#sj
Wells	Hazel	Bryan	1	17	1932	MNB	5	1	newspapers#mnb
Wells	William	R.	6	11	1935	Tribune	1	3	newspapers#trib
Wells	William	R.	6	12	1935	Tribune	4	6	newspapers#trib
Wells	James	Thomas	1	3	2023	SJ	4A	--	newpapers#SJ
Wells	Willis	Joseph	4	3	1995	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Wells	George	William	11	30	1959	SJ	3	7	newspapers#sj
Wells	James	Thomas	1	4	2023	SJ	4A	--	newpapers#SJ
Wells	Lizzie	(Mrs. Joseph)	1	17	1883	NBDJ	1	4	newspapers#nbdj
Wells	Willis	J., Jr.	6	11	2019	SJ	A3	--	newspapers#sj