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
Purifoy	Julia	Batson	4	5	1993	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Julia	Batson	4	6	1993	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Julia	Caroline	11	29	1939	Tribune	2	2	newspapers#trib
Purifoy	Kenneth		3	7	1978	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Luther	Jones, Jr.	9	23	2001	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Luther	Jones, Jr.	9	24	2001	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Mamie	Toler	3	7	1979	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Mamie	Toler	3	8	1979	SJ	2A	2	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Lee		7	20	2006	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Mary	Elizabeth	5	4	1979	SJ	2A	4	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	William	Francis	6	15	1964	SJ	3	6	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Minnie	Bell Jones	11	27	2004	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Minnie	Ward	8	1	1973	SJ	12	4	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Myrtle	Willis	4	3	1968	SJ	3	3	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Ada	Lou	1	16	2022	SJ	4A & 5A	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Nola	Wetherington	1	2	1974	SJ	24	4	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Meritha	Dowdle (Mrs. David Lee, Jr.)	3	27	2015	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Oswald		5	1	1961	SJ	12	5	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Renee	Elizabeth Toler	3	3	2000	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Robert	Allen, Jr.	11	3	1995	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Meritha	Dowdle (Mrs. David Lee, Jr.)	3	28	2015	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Ruth	Byrd	1	5	1977	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Sallie	B.	6	13	1968	SJ	17	2	newspapers#sj
Purifoy	Stephen	G., Mrs.	12	2	1936	Tribune	1	2	newspapers#trib
Purifoy	Ellis	E.	4	13	1943	SJ	6	4	newspapers#sj