When Minnie Franklin Bunkley was born on 22 November 1883, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, her father, Adolphus Gerald Bunkley, was 23 and her mother, Nellie ( Ellen) Barrett, was 20. She married Richard Pinson Duke on 30 April 1908, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 26 December 1969, in West Point, Clay, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in West Point, Clay, Mississippi, United States.