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
Godwin	Leroy		12	6	1919	MNB	5	3	newspapers#mnb
Godwin	Lester	M.	9	2	1934	Tribune	1	2	newspapers#trib
Godwin	Lila	Conway	10	4	1997	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Lorena	Carawan	7	31	1976	SJ	2A	1	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Mary	Dixon	5	8	1992	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Myrtie Lee	Leonard	3	1	2002	SJ	A3	--	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Needham	F.	11	8	1976	SJ	2A	2	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Louis	Purvis, Jr.	10	12	1960	SJ	5	6	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Nettie	Emma	2	19	1972	SJ	2	5	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Oscar		8	19	1968	SJ	14	4	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Janet	Bender Gaskins	2	23	2021	SJ	A3	--	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Rosa	Lee	3	8	1997	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Samuel	Carl	5	21	1973	SJ	10	4	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Verona	Silverthorne	12	30	1978	SJ	2A	2	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Vida	Toler	12	14	1997	SJ	A4	--	newspapers#sj
Godwin	William	Crete	4	20	1951	SJ	5	2	newspapers#sj
Godwin	William	Troy	8	11	1986	SJ	4A	--	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Zeb		11	24	1935	Tribune	6	1	newspapers#trib
Godwin	William	James	2	18	1967	SJ	2	5	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Joseph	Perry	3	26	1931	SJ	1	2	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Eldridge	C.	10	29	2014	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Gary	Edward	5	26	1975	SJ	2A	3	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Harvey	Milton	7	27	2019	SJ	A3	--	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Gary		5	26	1975	SJ	1B	3-4	newspapers#sj
Godwin	Gary		5	28	1975	SJ	1B	1	newspapers#sj