New Bern Obituary Index

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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

Order by:

Last Name	First Name	Middle/Maiden Name	Year

Records Found: 186286

Last Name	First Name	Middle/Maiden Name	Month	Day	Year	Newspaper	Page	Column	URL

Best	Joanna Lynn	Stroud	5	3	2006	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Alonza		10	12	1985	SJ	2A	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Angie	Nora	6	3	1988	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Annie	Mae Simmons	3	9	1997	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Annie	Poole	12	16	1969	SJ	15	3	newspapers#sj

Best	Annie	Poole	12	19	1969	SJ	15	6,7	newspapers#sj

Best	Annie	M. Simmons	3	7	1997	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Arebell	Howard	11	25	2000	SJ	--A5	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Benjamin	H.	6	30	1982	SJ	2A	4	newspapers#sj

Best	Bernice	Lee	3	8	1979	SJ	2A	2	newspapers#sj

Best	Bertha "Teenie"	Deans	11	20	2001	SJ	--A3	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Bessie	Stevens	1	3	1998	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Burney		2	6	1917	MNB	3	3	newspapers#mnb

Best	Burwell		9	4	1884	NBWJ	3	6	newspapers#nbwj

Best	Della	Bryant	1	13	1956	SJ	11	4	newspapers#sj

Best	Carl	Sylvester	7	1	1991	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Sallie		7	10	1942	SJ	2	3	newspapers#sj

Best	Carl	Sylvester	7	2	1991	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Haywood	I., Jr.	1	9	2017	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Sylvanus		5	4	1948	SJ	2	5	newspapers#sj

Best	Rachel		1	1	1892	NBDJ	1	3	newspapers#nbdj

Best	Cecil		10	5	1977	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj

Best	Lester, Jr.		1	15	2021	SJ	A3	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Cecil		10	7	1977	SJ	2A	2	newspapers#sj

Best	Clyde	Cornelius, Jr.	6	26	1998	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj