William Albert "Jack" Morris was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on March 6, 1847. In 1851 he traveled with his family on the Oregon Trail to Oregon City, Oregon. Morris left home in 1870 and, sixteen years later, settled on Sage Creek, Wyoming, about two miles south of the Montana territory line. In 1877 or 1878 he married Delilah Shuck, daughter of North Dakota pioneers. The couple lived in a dugout during the first year of their marriage. The town of Frannie, Wyoming, was named after Frannie Morris, their daughter, said to be the first white child born in the Big Horn Basin. Frannie Morris married Russell Ford. W.A. Morris was involved in litigation with Montana parties over the water rights of Sage Creek for seventeen years. A federal court awarded Morris priority claims to the waters. Delilah Shuck Morris died on December 16, 1932, and William A. Morris died on March 21, 1935. The Tongue River Indian Reservation was created for the Northern Cheyenne Indians in 1884. It is located on the Tongue and Rosebud rivers in Montana. The Cheyennes were originally sent to the "Indian Territory" (Oklahoma) in 1877, but could not adjust to the environment there. They returned to Montana in 1878, during what has become known as "Cheyenne Autumn."