Second Generation  

2. Percy Brandon ZERBY, son of John Harry ZERBY and Nancy Hannah BRANDOM, was born on 2 Feb 1885 in Carroliton, MO, died on 2 Apr 1963 in Oklahoma City, OK, at age 78, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, OK.

General Notes: Percy B. Zerby was a loving and gentle person with a gift for words. He did not go to college but he loved to read and always had a collection of books. His parents moved to Supply sometime after 1900. The 1910 census records for Supply show Percy married to a xxxxxx May, the first name not being legible. A note from Maxyne indicates his first marriage was in Carrolton, Mo. The census records also shows he was assistant cashier at the bank.

In 1911 Percy's future father-in-law, Burrell Million, bought the bank. In 1917 he married Ora Million, Burrell's daughter and their only child, Maxyne Cecilia Zerby Dorr, was born in 1919. Percy eventually became vice president of the bank and was also the treasurer of the town of Supply. The family lived in the largest home in Supply and was very much involved in society life. They would have dances in the ballroom on the second floor of their home. The bank moved to Woodward in 1929 in an attempt to survive the depression. In 1930 the bank failed and merged with the Bank of Woodward. This had a devastating effect on Percy which he never recovered from. Around 1938 when his daughter entered college, he started working as a clerk in the Oklahoma Highway Department in Perry, OK. Ora and Maxyne moved to Stillwater so Maxyne could attend Oklahoma A&M. He would sleep on a cot in a closet at the Highway Department during the week and go to Stillwater on the weekends. He remained a clerk until he retired 25 years later. He walked to and from the Highway Department every day. He never drove a car.

He loved his garden and was a great grandfather. His grandchildren called him "Nini" and Ora, "Mimi." He loved to work in his vegetable garden while Mimi would work with her flowers. The last few years of his life he and Ora moved to Oklahoma City to be close to Maxyne and Sam.


(See Tales of the Al Dorr Family)

Percy married Ora Cecilia MILLION on 18 Jun 1917 in Enid, OK.² Ora was born on 18 Jul 1876 in Shelbina, MO. Williamstown??, died on 27 Mar 1968 in Oklahoma City, OK, at age 91, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, OK.

The child from this marriage was:

1         i.  Maxyne C. ZERBY (born on 11 Jun 1919 in Supply, OK - died on 30 Sep 2007 in Stillwater, OK). Maxyne married Albert Edward DORR, son of Albert Ernest DORR and Laura Estelle BOSWELL, on 1 Jun 1940 in Stillwater, OK. Albert was born on 3 Sep 1918 in Macon, Fayette Co., TN, died on 13 Jul 1995 in Oklahoma City, OK, at age 76, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, OK.

Percy next married Lillie May before 1910.

3. Ora Cecilia MILLION, daughter of Burrell MILLION and Emma Catherine KELL, was born on 18 Jul 1876 in Shelbina, MO. Williamstown??, died on 27 Mar 1968 in Oklahoma City, OK, at age 91, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, OK.

General Notes: Ora Million attended a Catholic college at a Catholic convent in Quincy, Illinois. She was originally married to Dr. Arthur Perry. She had two sons, Don and Sam, and a daughter, Thelma, who died the same year that she was born . Dr. Perry was practicing medicine in Missouri when her father Burrel Million, Sr. convinced him to move to Apache; there was no doctor in Apache at the time. Dr, Perry died in 1911 while helping to fight an epidemic in western Oklahoma.

In 1916 Ora married Percy B. Zerby who was working in her father's bank. She actively worked in the bank untill 1931 when the bank failed. After the bank failed the family moved to Lone Wolf. When Maxyne, her daughter, went to school at Oklahoma A&M she moved to Stillwater and Percy took a job with the highway department in Perry. After Maxyne married she then moved to Perry. She remained in Perry until her later years when she moved to Oklahoma City to be near her daughter. While in Perry she enjoyed her flower gardens and the visits of her grandchildren.

Ora's grandfather and aunt, Samuel and Alice Kell, took part in the Oklahoma land rush in 1904 and received an homestead of 160 acres near Bison, OK.

Ora married Arthur PERRY. Arthur died in 1911.

Children from this marriage were:

          i.  Sammuel Million PERRY was born on 20 Jun 1910 in Cheyene, OK (Apache) and died on 14 Sep 1988 in Lawton, OK., at age 78. Sammuel married Ellen SCHMIDT. Ellen was born on 15 Jan 1914 and died on 15 Oct 1970 in Oklahoma City, OK, at age 56.

         ii.  Thelma C. PERRY was born on 18 Jun 1903 in Williamstown, MO and died on 18 Jun 1903 in Williamstown, MO.

        iii.  Donald PERRY was born on 27 Mar 1909 in Williamstown, MO and died on 10 Jun 1964, at age 55. Donald married Lemmah ANDERSON. Lemmah was born on 2 Apr 1922 in Odessa, TX and died on 4 Nov 2008 in Marble Falls, TX, at age 86.

Ora next married Percy Brandon ZERBY on 18 Jun 1917 in Enid, OK.² Percy was born on 2 Feb 1885 in Carroliton, MO, died on 2 Apr 1963 in Oklahoma City, OK, at age 78, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, OK.