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	Rose	Marie	8	22	2003	SJ	A3	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	William	Earl	3	9	1992	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Margaret	A.	3	4	1970	SJ	2	4	newspapers#sj
Smith	W.	J.	10	21	1932	SJ	3	5	newspapers#sj
Smith	Minnie		4	6	1948	SJ	4	2	newspapers#sj
Smith	Rosa	Gray (Mrs. Marcellus "Sill")	4	25	2007	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Abner	A.	10	19	1944	SJ	3	2	newspapers#sj
Smith	Clyde		9	16	1884	NBDJ	1	4	newspapers#nbdj
Smith	James	Alexander	2	16	1971	SJ	2	1	newspapers#sj
Smith	Paul	E.	6	10	1971	SJ	2	5	newspapers#sj
Smith	Flossie	S.	10	21	2009	SJ	4	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Joe		3	8	1905	NBDJ	4	3	newspapers#nbdj
Smith	Gaston		10	25	1988	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Jesse	S.	5	29	1969	SJ	17	2	newspapers#sj
Smith	Major		12	23	1886	NBWJ	2	4	newspapers#nbwj
Smith	Rose	Smalls	1	16	2002	SJ	--A3	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	William	Earl	3	12	1992	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Audrey	Askew (Mrs. Joe L.)	9	20	2015	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Jacob		11	18	1881	Cart Telephone	2	3	newspapers#telephone
Smith	Claude	Potter	6	27	2006	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Goldie		8	12	2006	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Chester	Lee	1	23	1992	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Sadie	C.	12	27	1951	SJ	4	5	newspapers#sj
Smith	Martha	Shields (Mrs. William B., Sr. "Billy")	6	8	2018	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Smith	Gaston		1	31	1992	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj