Twelve-year-old Anna Jarvis remembered that. Her mother died in 1905, and Jarvis, then in her 40s, promised at her gravesite that she’d be the one to answer her prayer.

Mother’s Day ain’t what it used to be. The family of Anna Jarvis, the holiday’s founder, are following in their ancestor’s footsteps — by refusing to recognize the controversial date.

With Mother’s Day taking place this Sunday, Executive Director of the Anna Jarvis House in Grafton spoke with us about the holiday that grew its roots in W.Va. and how it began as a woman’s ...

Anna Jarvis, who never had children of her own, tirelessly campaigned for Mother's Day to become a national holiday on the second Sunday in May to honor the anniversary of her mother's death.

Anna Jarvis, the creator of Mother's Day, first fought tooth and nail to establish the holiday, but years later she tried to abolish it.

Anna Marie Jarvis founded the Mother's Day holiday in the U.S in 1914, after the passing of her own mother. By the 1920s, she had soured on the commercialization of ...

You can go back to the 1800s and catch a glimpse of Anna Jarvis’s life anytime the museum is open for a price of five dollars.

While dining at a Philadelphia tearoom owned by her friend John Wanamaker, Anna Jarvis ordered a salad — then dumped it on the floor. Jarvis hated that the dish was called “Mother’s Day Salad,” named ...