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Origin of Mother’s Day - Carroll County Comet
Summary
St. Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, was the place where the first Mother’s Day service was established in 1908. Anna Jarvis, the ninth of 11 siblings, believed that her recently deceased mother Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis, along with other mothers, merited recognition and respect. There was much tragedy in Ann Marie’s life. Of her 11 children, only four […]
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