Dr. Grady Early, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, taught math and computer science at Texas State University for 29 years, serving briefly as interim chair of the newly-formed Computer Science department. After retirement, Early began researching his family history and gained some familiarity with various research tools: ancestry, familysearch, newspapers, San Marcos Record archives, findagrave and many more. This made it easy for him to segue into the histories of non-family members, which is how he began to write a story about Southwest Texas Normal in San Marcos, also known as San Marcos Normal, which is now Texas State University. This series will highlight the first staff at Southwest Texas Normal.
According to the 1907 Pedagogue, Jessie Alison Sayers was a co-efficient of unknown numbers; collector of sums, differences, products and quotients; serves as a prime factor in all Normal work.
Dr. David Sayers had two families. The first, with Mary Peete, produced Joseph Draper “J.D.” in 1841; the second with “Inda” Scott produced Jessie Alison in 1859.
