Charles Hudson Green was born to Andrew Jackson Gideon Green and Olive Leolia Ussery. He married Elan Murriel Addington on 14 Aug 1927 in Lubbock, Texas at the First Baptist Church. They had 3 children:

Virginia Charlene Green
Elan Lewis Green
Edna Lou Green

Charles is remembered as a big tease, but very gentle and gentlemanly. He was somewhat short, possibly about 5'2" tall (the same highth as his wife) and stocky, and had tremendous upper body strength. I guess his highth is how he picked up the nickname "Shorty", and also how all of his children got their short stature. He could yodel, and had a nice singing voice which has been passed down to children and grandchildren.

He died from extreme liver damage resulting from poisoning received while working in the Zinc Smelter in Dumas, Texas. This was the only kind of work he could find during the depression.

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Plainview Sunday Herald, Plainview, TX December 1, 1940

Funeral services for Charles H. Green, 41, were conducted Saturday afternoon at the Baptist Church in Hale Center by Rev. C. C. Griffiths, pastor of the Olton Baptist Church. Burial was in the Abernathy cemetery under direction of the Roy G. Wood Funeral Home of Plainview.

Mr. Green, a cotton buyer, moved to Hale Center two months ago from Lubbock, where he had lived 20 years. He was born Oct. 4, 1899, in Collin County, Texas. Death followed a three weeks' illness.

Surviving are the widow and three children, Charlene, E.L. and Edna Lou, and his mother, Mrs. Ollie L. Green, all of Hale Center; three brothers, Carl of Sweetwater, Frank of Dallas, Lloyd of Morton; and seven sisters, Mrs. Maud Bullock of Farmersville, Mrs. Lura May, Blue Ridge, Texas, Miss Era Green of Morton, Miss Eula Green of Sweetwater, Mrs. Pearl Hall of Slaton, Mrs. Esther Addington of Hale Center, and Mrs. Lela Alexander of Porterville, CA.