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: 186278

Last Name	First Name	Middle/Maiden Name	Month	Day	Year	Newspaper	Page	Column	URL
Bright	Clifton		9	9	1927	SJ	1	2	newspapers#sj
Bright	Mack		9	28	1960	SJ	2	6	newspapers#sj
Bright	S.	T.	7	29	1897	NBWJ	4	3	newspapers#nbwj
Bright	Tom		5	30	1906	NBDJ	1	4	newspapers#nbdj
Bright	S.	T.	7	28	1897	NBDJ	4	4	newspapers#nbdj
Bright	Isaac		5	2	1894	NBDJ	4	1	newspapers#nbdj
Bright	S.	H.	10	7	1904	NBWJ	3	4	newspapers#nbwj
Bright	Ruth Marie	Dawson	1	29	2006	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj
Bright	Johnnie	Davis	2	7	2007	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj
Bright	Donald	Stanleigh	2	22	2025	SJ	A4		newpapers#SJ
Bright	Ruth Marie	Dawson	1	31	2006	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Bright	Barbara	Dianne Banks	5	26	2013	SJ	6	--	newspapers#sj
Bright	Geral	Odell	2	19	1909	NBWJ	1	2	newspapers#nbwj
Bright	Arie	Lee	5	15	2008	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj
Bright	John	L.	2	15	1964	SJ	1	8; 12:8	newspapers#sj
Bright	Barbara	Dianne Banks	5	28	2013	SJ	6	--	newspapers#sj
Bright	Shawn	L.	10	8	2016	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Bright	Maragaret		8	11	1940	SJ	5	8	newspapers#sj
Bright	Henri	R.	2	17	1973	SJ	2	3-4	newspapers#sj
Bright	Jeanette		1	11	2022	SJ	4A	--	newpapers#SJ
Bright	Shawn	L.	10	6	2016	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Bright	Willie	M. McDuffie	2	10	1970	SJ	2	3	newspapers#sj
Bright	Clifton		9	8	1927	SJ	8	3	newspapers#sj
Bright	E.	H.	9	4	1943	SJ	3	3	newspapers#sj
Bright	A.	H.	3	3	1892	NBWJ	3	1	newspapers#nbwj