From 1921-1922 Yearbook of Old Settlers Association of Johnson County, p. 24. 47 "...the school was taught in a log cabin of one room by Jesse B. McGrew. He was of middle age, probably about thirty years old, and the scholars were of all ages from full adult age down to 7 or 8, and of both sexes. Mr. McGrew was not a professional teacher, and the school he was then teaching is perhaps the only one he ever taught. He was a bachelor but during the term he was then teaching he was married to Miss Charlotte Calkin--one of his pupils, a beautiful and winsome girl of thirteen, and it was said at the time that he eloped with her. However this may be, certain it is that he scurried awa with her to Esquire Sutliff's, a justice of the peace in the eastern part of the county, where they were married. How McGrew managed to procure a lilcense is not known. Some of the most outspoken in condemnation of this proceeding were some of the mature young men of the school who perhaps were smitten by the charms and graces of Lottie, as she was called, for she had charms and graces in profusion. And it is a fact that she was a true and dutiful wife to McGrew as long as she lived, which was many years.
As a teacher Mr. McGrew was not averse to corporal punishment, but he only resorted to it once at that term. The victim was Alban Brown, a son of P.C.Brown, one of the early pioneers. On this occasion the whipped, and accordingly when it was about time for the boy to be back withthe whip I slipped out and stayed until the scene was over.