Show GOLDEN WEDDING OF THE DUKE DUZE BROTHERS M X M c 0 0 0 0 1 n rl f ji 1 1 k ff I S I 1 i r tt oc 0 to tot 1 ir I I t J S i JJ J U u I 1 h y y i g y I OC ft y OCy y y Y Y Y r y y y y y y yX y X I 1 Y T I YI i e L J 5 S Si C Ct I i J 1 t 5 a w 1 M X X S N Special Correspondence Heber City May Muy U 1 The above pic pie picture lure ture represents John and Robert Haberl S Duke brother and nn l their wives sisters and whoso shioo who o maiden maldon names were Anna It and Martha V Young The fhe two couples were married fifty ago ngo and the tho double golden rolden wedding wee recently celebrated children child ron and other othel relatives und and friends s participating in itt the thc event Robert S 3 Duke und and Anna Anita II It Young became husband l and ond wife at nt 1100 March 6 C 1857 while John o anti Martha V Y Young wore united In wed wedlock wedlock lock loCI In itt the thc same sune city Just ju t 22 days later In It will bo be b seen that Iho the young younger er e brother married the older sister John Duke was wu born horti at Albany X YI 1 Y a ov 19 1831 1 and Robert Hobort S 5 was born nt lit tho ho same place pinco April H 14 ISI 1837 They The moved moed with sith their fathers family to Nauvoo In Ill ISM and wert vere acquaint acquainted ed eti with tho thin Prophet Joseph Smith end and his brother They Tho stood on tho porch of or tho tito Mansion when whon the prophet matte made his lost last public ad lul address dress both bolh went to 10 see soe the itt prophet und patriarch utter titi till runt mar martyred The Tho Dukes witnessed time tho stir stirling ling IIII events that followed when the saints were driven from their homes by mobs On heaving Nauvoo 1100 they the crossed the thc Mississippi river on n a flut boat hont In the tho night their father and mother both holh being sick they camped on tin tho the bank bonk of ot the tho river ten tell days with many others In tu a tl starving condition when the thc quails were providentially sent to Isrnel as us they were wore to ancient Israel The rite family wan WOR en with tho the saints at nt their places appointed for Cor re rc recruiting before coming coining westward They crossed cra the tho plains In 1830 1850 with Captain company Tho Time Dukes went sent I to Provo Prove City in itt n time tho he spring of iSil Sri and amI moved ll to Provo valley aIley all In iii the tho lh spring ot or 1860 John flobert were vere both In 11 Inthe tho the Walker and Black Indian WillS wars ars and inti assisted III in building hulliUng roads loads schoolhouses etc otc In iii the tho now new place they hud had chosen to 10 make matte their home They volunteer In what Is Lu known ns os the tho ichio I cho canyon eanon war wor ar John wont went with the tho Pony 1011 Ex Express x press nrose company in 1807 to Fort baven worth At they thuei the ero sur surrounded surrounded rounded by b ti tt band 1 of or Crow Indians u t l corral was made dude of at the tho wagons with about CO extra horses homes In tho center centerA A guard ot of 20 o men was put nt itt the th opening until penco was made with the Hie Indians by h giving them about pounds ot of flour baked Into bread When they th arrived d at nt the tho Platte river they tiley thE were surrounded by I tho the Cheyenne Indians anil nm am the tho some same ot or making pence taken John Joint wont went the tho same full foil to Fort Bridget to tl meet the tite handcart company Robert S carried n it plow 1101 on an his back from Provo 1100 to Heber a u distance of 28 2 miles mile on 01 account of ot the road mati being washed fl In itt Provo 1100 canyon Ho lie wont weilt to 10 the Missouri river In III i after emigrants emigrant He TIC performed n It mission to tn Pennsylvania in III ISS I and amid on his re ro return turn was tas ordained n II bishop which po position he hold iteld until the time reorganization of oC the tho February 1901 1101 when was items ordained a C patriarch The rime Duke brothers both were presidents dents of oC seventy In time the Twentieth nm um John also labored In iii the time bishopric of ot the tho West ward In Heber Hebel 11 U years when ho lie was titS released t anti and ordained a n Uncle Johnny anti and Undo Robert Hobert ns liS they thoy are arc called calle by their friends have havo been always servants to 11 tho the people and hove have hn gone OTlO nil over oar tho tito stake o day anti and night flight for years admin administering u to the sick amid Atma Annn It R Young was born at Putnam courtly county Tonn July 13 ISIO and Maltha was born horn nt the thu santo same place Feb Fl b 8 1844 St and both moved to Nauvoo Nauvo In itt They both remember tho the prophet und his brother und tile tho martyrdom Tho rho Young family faintly was WaR on tho Lh steamboat that blew up at mit Lexington Mo o when It is said Rilla about a It hundred lives hives w wore ro lost They lh welo tho the only family that got oft off olive alo with no ho limbs broken They Glossed clORse 1 the Iho plains plAin In III 1852 when only miles on Oh their was Ill their father died at al Voi River from Frances O Q tho older sister t 01 and Anna IJ R drove the Iho l team yoke oko of ot oxen tho balance o oo of o the way I tho plains Tho Time widow with her family settled at nt COttonWood where they Ule remained tin nil Ill JS u when hen they the moved to Provo Prove when the he iwo sisters Anna U n and Mar Martha 1111 thin tha V Y e l as os obOe above stated assisted In pioneering Provo Prove P oo their own on sheep carding tho ito wool spinning with the tite old time wheel thee wheeland dud and making their thell own cloth Anna Anita Ii it was tS stake of ot tho timo thoY Y L IJ I M 1 I A for or 18 IS years cars anti and hums 1119 been ben stoke stake Relief society president lent for r r eight years cars which position she sho now holds 1 Aunt Martha Duke ns as she Is 15 Known to her f tends i has been a n silent jutes mes messenger of peace especially the th sick lIck and ant will hut be bo hered by b scores of ot people for tor her many inan acts of ot I when they thc were In trouble Tho Duke families aro arc respected by all nil who know them and 1111 they tho will ili leave a 1 namo In Inthe inthe the annals of ot the tho history ot or stake that Ihn t will never die iio le |