Life After The Mines
Wyoming's enactment of women's suffrage in 1869 prompted a surge forward for human rights, historical errors regarding its passage notwithstanding. Moreover the territory's appointment of Morris as justice of the peace for the South Pass District on February 17, 1870, the first woman to hold judicial office in the modern world, furthered the advance.
Morris' involvement in women's causes punctuated her life after she left the gold mines in South Pass City.
- February 1872: participated in the American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in San Francisco
- August 1873: Nominated by the Woman's Party of Wyoming as a candidate to the Wyoming Territorial Legislature, a nomination that Morris declined
- 1876: served as vice president, National American Woman Suffrage Association
- July 1876: addressed the National Suffrage Convention in Philadelphia
- July 1890: presented the new state's flag to Governor Warren during statehood celebration
- 1896: attended as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, which nominated the William McKinley-Garret A. Hobart ticket. She was not related to Vice President Hobart, who died in office in 1899.
The former justice died in [Cheyenne on April 2, 1902, four months shy of her 90th birthday. She is interred at Lakeview Cemetery in Cheyenne where a simple stone monument adorned only with her name marks her gravesite.
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