Tag: Anna Reeves Jarvis

• Honor your mother on Mother’s Day – Sunday, May 12, 2013

  Anna Reeves Jarvis was the first woman to hold a celebration of mothers in 1858 in West Virginia, where she instituted Mothers’ Work Day to raise awareness about local sanitation issues.  During the Civil War, she expanded the scope of Mothers’ Work Day to include sanitary conditions on both sides of the battlefield. Julia Ward…

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  11 May 2013

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  Anna Reeves Jarvis, Bahala Na (Come What May), Mother’s Day, Second Sunday in May