The Woodyard family expressed their appreciation to the Shrine committee, the Grafton City Manager, and volunteers for ...

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 ...

However, what we have come to know as Mother's Day in the U.S. can be credited to a woman named Anna Jarvis, an activist from the early 20th century. Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day.

Anna Jarvis founded Mother’s Day to honor her beloved mother, then spent the rest of her life fighting the holiday’s commercial and political exploitation. She died alone in an asylum.

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 ...

Jarvis' daughter, Anna Jarvis, conceived Mother's Day as a way to honor her mother, and with the help of Philadelphia department store owner John Wanamaker, she organized the first Mother's Day in ...

When Jarvis died in 1905, Anna Jarvis sought to create a holiday that honored the "sacrifices mothers made for their children."Three years later, in May 1908, Anna Jarvis organized the first ...

Then, on Mother’s Day 1925, Jarvis crashed a convention of the American War Mothers, protesting what she saw as exploitation of the holiday to make money. Needless to say, Jarvis lost the war against ...

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 ...