Mother's Day

It all began in 1907 when Anna Jarvis decided to hold a gathering to commemorate her late mother in Grafton, WV. In 1908, the holiday developed further by drawing a much larger crowd in Grafton and even celebrations in Philadelphia, where her mother died. In 1910, the holiday of Mother's day was declared official in West Virginia on the second Sunday of May. Two years after it became an official holiday, Anna Jarvis set out to get more support for the holiday. In 1914, her hard work paid off and Woodrow Wilson declared Mother's Day a national holiday.