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: 185612

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

Best	Thelma	E.	11	1	2015	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Gene	Rollings	7	24	1994	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	George		12	18	1975	SJ	2A	3	newspapers#sj

Best	George		12	19	1975	SJ	2A	4	newspapers#sj

Best	George	Relma	11	6	1968	SJ	24	5,6	newspapers#sj

Best	Grace	Scott Simmons	6	7	1995	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Rosa	Bell	11	22	1965	SJ	20	4	newspapers#sj

Best	Grace	Simmons	6	5	1995	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Henry		5	26	1860	DP	2	4	newspapers#dp

Best	Henry		5	29	1860	NBWP	2	6	newspapers#wp

Best	Julia	Dunn	12	11	2013	SJ	6	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Leolia	Rhodes	3	12	2014	SJ	6	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Henry		6	12	1860	NBWP	1	3	newspapers#wp

Best	Kirby	[Not deceased - See correction SunJournal 3/28/15]	3	27	2015	SJ	A1	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Herbert		2	13	1936	Tribune	1	4	newspapers#trib

Best	Ida	P.	3	3	1978	SJ	2A	2	newspapers#sj

Best	Ronald	C.	5	1	1996	SJ	A4		newspapers#sj

Best	Ida	P.	2	28	1978	SJ	2A	2	newspapers#sj

Best	Irene	C.	5	18	1984	SJ	2A	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Isiah		3	23	1990	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Isiah		3	27	1990	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Isiah	Stephen	7	10	2003	SJ	A3	--	newspapers#sj

Best	J.	W., Mrs.	3	1	1894	NBWJ	3	1	newspapers#nbwj

Best	Betty Mae	Dawson	5	1	2006	SJ	A5	--	newspapers#sj

Best	Carlton	Dean	5	26	2013	SJ	7	--	newspapers#sj