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	C.	C., Mrs	3	17	1897	ECN	1	2	newspapers#ecn
Smith	Cecil	Earl	8	13	1979	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Smith	Fannie	Pollock	8	2	1977	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Smith	James	N.	12	21	1893	NBWJ	3	4	newspapers#nbwj
Smith	Lorena	Buck	5	19	1995	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Robert		1	23	1940	Tribune	4	6	newspapers#trib
Smith	Bessie		3	11	1958	SJ	14	2	newspapers#sj
Smith	Sarah	C.	4	20	1930	MNB	5	3	newspapers#mnb
Smith	Hyman	Robert	8	20	1956	SJ	5	8	newspapers#sj
Smith	James	Peterson "Pete"	1	6	1991	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Ola	Toler (Mrs. Reggie)	5	13	2008	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Lillian	Eubanks	1	30	2009	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Sylvia		1	27	2024	SJ	A4	--	newpapers#SJ
Smith	Celia	C. (Mrs. A.T.)	3	17	1897	ECN	1	4	newspapers#ecn
Smith	Charles	"Norman"	1	17	2002	SJ	--A5	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Farrow		12	16	1987	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	James	O.	11	26	2000	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Lottie	Adams	1	18	1982	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Smith	Walter	P.	6	12	1972	SJ	2	2	newspapers#sj
Smith	Sandra	Lynne Dickerson	3	2	2015	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Lloyd	Becton, Jr.	4	12	2016	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Kitty	Rhem (Mrs. A.D.)	7	7	1882	NBDJ	1	3	newspapers#nbdj
Smith	James	Cobb	12	6	1951	SJ	15	3	newspapers#sj
Smith	Charles		3	17	1865	NCT	2	2	newspapers#nct
Smith	James	Odell	11	28	2000	SJ	--A4	--	newspapers#sj