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
Nelson	Rachel		8	2	1972	SJ	8	6	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Rachel		8	4	1972	SJ	12	3	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Gus		9	14	1928	MNB	1	3	newspapers#mnb
Nelson	Clarence		9	29	1903	NBWJ	4	2	newspapers#nbwj
Nelson	Raspberry		1	28	1892	NBWJ	3	1	newspapers#nbwj
Nelson	Leo	Bernard	12	4	1888	NBDJ	1	6	newspapers#nbdj
Nelson	Rena	Virginia	5	26	1975	SJ	2A	2	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Eleanor Ann	Brown	10	5	2005	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Calvin	Latham	3	28	2019	SJ	A3	--	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Reuben		11	13	1979	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Chauncey	M.	1	12	1970	SJ	12	5	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Betty	Jean Dunbar	8	8	2007	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Reuben		11	15	1979	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Gus		9	15	1928	MNB	2	1	newspapers#mnb
Nelson	Sarah	C.	9	8	1926	SJ	3	2	newspapers#sj
Nelson	William		1	18	1939	SJ	2	5	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Richard		9	19	1936	Tribune	1	6	newspapers#trib
Nelson	Richard	Earl	10	15	1991	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Ruth	Davis	8	20	1956	SJ	10	3	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Richard	Earl	10	16	1991	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Robert	Edmund	5	13	2000	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Robert	Edmund	5	16	2000	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Jerrold	Lee	11	3	2010	SJ	7	--	newspapers#sj
Nelson	Robert	Edmund	6	16	2000	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj
Nelson	James		12	10	1929	SJ	2	1	newspapers#sj