 At three months old, the family moved to Marshall, Texas, where McAfee would grow up and attend undergraduate school.He graduated high school in Marshall in 1930, and later noted that his high school physics and chemistry teacher, Freeman Prince Hodge, was a great influence of his.In 1941, he married Viola Winston, who taught French at the same junior high school in Columbus, Ohio where McAfee taught science and mathematics; McAfee and Winston had two daughters.