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
Smith	Norma	Jean Tripp	3	5	2019	SJ	A3	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	William	R. "Willie"	10	5	2013	SJ	6	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Carolyn	Marie "Re-Re"	8	16	2001	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	F.	G. "Joe"	6	1	1977	SJ	2A	2	newspapers#sj
Smith	James	Henry	4	11	1969	SJ	13	2	newspapers#sj
Smith	W.	Carl	9	28	1981	SJ	2A	4	newspapers#sj
Smith	Douglas	Howard	6	16	1970	SJ	2	5	newspapers#sj
Smith	Willie		2	8	1955	SJ	5	3	newspapers#sj
Smith	Richard	S.	12	18	1948	SJ	3	4	newspapers#sj
Smith	Barrie	Churchill	1	6	2009	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Melvin		1	17	1929	SJ	3	3	newspapers#sj
Smith	Samuel		11	9	1970	SJ	1	7-8	newspapers#sj
Smith	Carrie		1	14	1974	SJ	2	5	newspapers#sj
Smith	James	Henry	12	8	1969	SJ	2	6	newspapers#sj
Smith	Lloyd	Harrison	10	25	1968	SJ	3	1	newspapers#sj
Smith	Rena		9	29	1923	MNB	5	4-6	newspapers#mnb
Smith	Betty	Wright	11	26	1964	SJ	1	2	newspapers#sj
Smith	Fannie	Dixon (Mrs. Augustus)	9	24	1935	SJ	1	3	newspapers#sj
Smith	Mary	Beatrice	2	14	2022	SJ	3A	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Mary	Carol (Mrs. Hoover A.)	7	13	2013	SJ	6	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	James	L.	6	27	1969	SJ	15	4	newspapers#sj
Smith	Lloyd	Leslie	3	8	1982	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Smith	Rena		1	2	1950	SJ	2	4	newspapers#sj
Smith	John	Murphy, Jr.	7	22	1964	SJ	1	8	newspapers#sj
Smith	Julia	L.	4	4	1963	SJ	5	3	newspapers#sj