Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, which now holds the International Mother's Day Shrine.[
According to a write-up in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, her campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the United States began 100 years ago in 1905, the year her beloved mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis,...