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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.

Although the younger Jarvis’ vision stood in stark contrast with that of her mother. It was her own mother who inspired Anna Jarvis to campaign for a national Mother’s Day.

Anna Jarvis, the holiday's founder, wanted moms to have a deeply personal day to celebrate them. Her vision for the holiday was to be a tribute to "the best mother who ever lived, yours." ...

According to Wikipedia, in 1868, Anna Jarvis, who had previously organized Mother’s Day Work Clubs to improve sanitation and health for both Union and Confederate encampments undergoing a typhoid ...

Grafton native Anna Jarvis is widely recognized as the founder of Mother’s Day. But her mother, Ann Jarvis, played an essential and often overlooked role.

Anna Jarvis created Mother's Day in honor of her late mother, but later protested the commercialization of the holiday and was arrested multiple times for disturbing the peace. (Library of Congress) ...

After Anna Jarvis inspired many others to follow her lead and write their mothers letters of gratitude, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation for the first national Mother's Day in 1914.