`Letitia Mae Channell
Principal 1926 ~1927
Mrs. Letitia Mae Channell was born in Caddo Parish a few miles south of Shreveport, Louisiana. She grew up on the farm on which she was born. She learned first the country life, the growing of crops the planting and harvesting of corn and cotton etc.
At the age of seventeen, the godmother took Letitia to live with her in the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, at which time, she entered the Peabody School and completed the grammar grade. After teaching two summers in the public-school work, she went to Mary Allen Seminary at Crockett, Texas where she finished the normal course. She then taught in the public school of Shreveport about four sessions and was very proficient in her work. Mrs. Letitia Mae Channell served as interim principal of the Morehouse Parish Training School from the fall of 1926 until Henry A. Dillon arrived in 1927.
In 1908 she married Rev. SJ Channell DD one of Louisiana's able preachers. Since then, she has taken her place as one of the mission workers of the State. She was Vice President of the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Louisiana Conference for several years and was made President and saw the mission work double if not triple. She was president three years, then she was made state president and is holding this office at this writing.
Mrs. LM Channell offered New Orleans for the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Convention held February of 1915 which was the greatest of all conventions ever held by the race in the bounds of the city. The convention honored Mrs. Channell by electing her the secretary of that convention.
She was converted when a child and has been a member of the African Methodist Church from her child life up to now. She has composed and published a number of beautiful poems and is called by some of the missionary sisters “Our Little Poet.” She has expressed the intention of publishing a book of poems at some time in the future.
At the age of seventeen, a godmother took Letitia to live with her in the city of Shreveport, La., where she entered the Peabody School and completed the grammar grade. After teaching two summers in the public school work, she went to Mary Allen Seminary, at Crocket, Tex., where she finished the normal course. She then taught in the public school of Shreveport about four sessions and was very proficient in her work.
Source: Centennial Encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church