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 ...

Ironically, the woman who created it, Anna Jarvis, might understand that dissonance better than anyone. After spending years fighting to create Mother’s Day, she spent the rest of her life ...

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 Jarvis is credited with starting the holiday in the United States, in honor of her own mother, also named Anna Jarvis. She later bemoaned the commercialization of Mother's Day and worked to ...

Anna Jarvis was the founder of Mother’s Day and a native to Taylor County. Her birthplace is now a museum, and over the weekend as part of the Mother’s Day Founders Festival, it will be having ...

Her letters were signed “Anna Jarvis, Founder of Mother’s Day.” “It became a part of her identity,” the historian said. “It was completely tied up in her ego.” The fight that consumed Jarvis was waged ...