Front:
MRS. ANNA M. REEVES JARVIS
The First Honored Mother
ANDREWS METHODIST CHURCH, Grafton, W. Va.
(The Mother Church of Mother's Day)
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FACTS CONCERNING MOTHER'S DAY
On May 10, 1908, a Mother's Day service was held in
this Church, at the request of the founder, Miss Anna Jarvis.
Mr. L. L. Loar, the Sunday School Superintendent, ar-
ranged the program, and it was celebrated in memory of
Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis, the honored mother, who served
as a teacher in the Primary department for over twenty
years.
On this same date, in the Church service which followed,
the pastor, Rev. Mr. Harry C. Howard, D.D., preached the
Mother's Day sermon.
It was at the General Conference, which convened at
Minneapolis, Minnesota, in July, 1912, that Judge Robin-
son, a delegate from this Church, introduced a resolution
recognizing Miss Anna Jarvis as the founder of Mother's
Day, and the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day in
the Church.
Later in 1914 Congress authorized the President to des-
ignate the second Sunday of each May as Mother's Day,
and since then it has spread to all corners of the earth.
