Green Moreland Massengale was born in Greene County, Georgia on August 3, 1822. His parents were Nathan Massengale and Lucinda Jarrell, who had married in Greene County, Georgia on December 21, 1821. He grew up in Greene County and appears to have been named after it. His family moved to Meriwether County before 1840 and there he married his first cousin, Mary Massengale. Mary had been born to Jordan Massengale and Mary Prince. They were married in Greene County on July 8, 1830.

Green became a bricklayer and stone mason. He lived in Griffin when the War between the States began. He sold his house and moved his family back to the country. He went to serve as a guard at the prison in Andersonville.

Green and Mary had 12 children. Many of their descendants still live in Meriwether, Coweta, and Fayette counties.

Green died in 1910 and is buried in the Crouch cemetery in Gay, Georgia. In looking at old pictures, his granddaughter, who was about 5 when he died immediately identified grandpa Massengale. When asked how she was so positive that it was him, she said "because I saw his ghost." She had been looking in a window in the little house where he and grandma lived a day after he died. He was looking back at her through the window!

The children's names are available from Larry Reed at CJSB06A@PRODIGY. COM.