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.

The family of Anna Jarvis, the holiday’s founder, are following in their ancestor’s footsteps — by refusing to recognize the controversial date. Jarvis, born in 1864, wanted moms to have a ...

Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day. Anna's mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, gave her the inspiration she would use to eventually champion the national holiday.

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 ...

Ann Reeves Jarvis, in whose honor Mother's Day was founded. When the elder Jarvis died in 1905, Anna Jarvis made a graveside promise to create a day for all mothers, Antolini said.

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 ...

Three years later, in May 1908, Anna Jarvis organized the first official Mother's Day celebration at a church in West Virginia, the History Channel reports.

Following Ann Reeves Jarvis’ death in 1905, her daughter — Anna Jarvis — championed the efforts to establish a day celebrating mothers, according to the History Channel.

Many add that, just like Anna Jarvis back in 1908, their mothers have made a special impact on their lives. "I owe everything I am to her and my success to her," Platt added.

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 ...