Unknown Corbell
Malachi Corbell
Capt. Malachi Corbell
1841      9/17/1908
Malachi Corbell, Keeper

Keeper Malachi Corbell saved two African-American fisherman whose boat capsized near Caffey's Inlet, North Carolina.  In June, 1877 he was awarded a Silver Lifesaving Medal, becoming the first member of the U.S. Life-Saving Service to earn one of the newly instituted Treasury Department life-saving medals.

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Location # 77
He married Sarah E. Snow.
CHILDREN:
Sarah A. Corbell
Malissa Corbell
Julia Corbell
Charles Corbell

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