Son of Jonathan Oldham Duke and Mary Stone

Married Anna Ross Young, 6 Mar 1857, Provo, Utah, Utah

Married Rachel Horrocks, 11 Nov 1872, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 3, p. 65

Duke, Robert Stone, a Patriarch in the Wasatch Stake of Zion, was born April 14, 1837, at Albany, N. Y., the son of Jonathan O. Duke and Mary Stone. He moved with his father's family to Nauvoo, Ill., and has a vivid recollection of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Patriarch; he also remembers the Nauvoo battle and how the quails were caught by the furnishing Saints on the banks of the Mississippi river. During the exodus of 1846 he moved with his father's family to Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, where he was baptized August 10, 1846, by Hyrum Buys. In 1850 the family emigrated to Utah, crossing the plains in Capt. Pace's company, which arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 3rd of that year. In 1851 he moved to Provo, and in the spring of 1860 settled at Heber City, Provo valley, which has been his permanent home ever since. In 1863 he was chosen as a counselor to Wm. M. Wall, the presiding Elder of Heber City. He took part in the Echo canyon campaign in 1857, and went back as a Church teamster to the Missouri river in 1866 after emigrants. As early as 1849 Bro. Duke was ordained a Teacher by his father. He was ordained a Seventy in July, 1857, by Joseph Young; ordained a High Priest and Bishop in November, 1884, by Francis M. Lyman and set apart to preside over the Heber East Ward. This position he held until Feb. 8, 1903, when he was ordained a Patriarch by Abraham Owen Woodruff. In 1882-1884 he filled a mission to Pennsylvania, etc. In 1857 (March 6th) he married Anna Ross Young and in 1872 (Nov. 9th) he married Rachel Horrocks. By these two wives he became the father of seventeen children, of whom thirteen are still living. In 1891 he was arrested on a charge of unlawful co-habitation.