Mother's day was created by Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, whose mother organized women's groups for health and friendship. In Grafton's late mother's church in Western Virginia, on 12 May 1907 she held the memorial service. Almost every state observed the day in five years, and the U.S. president in 1914.
Mother Jarvis also organized brigades of women during the Civil War, encouraging women to help, regardless of what side their men have chosen. She proposed to promote peace among the ex-Union family and the Confederation after the war a Mothers' Friendship Day. "I hope and pray that somebody will find a memorial day to commemorate it, in all fields of life, for the unrivaled service it renders to humanity," Ann Jarvis said one day. "She has the right."
Ann wanted only to honor her mother and the work she had done, and said her mother was the originator of the true Mother's Day, according to many sources. She was dismayed that with sending cards and gifts, Mother's Day was more commercialized and used as a way to promote other causes.
In the first few years the day was considered legal, but the services of the church in honor of all mothers, both live and dead, were performed in absolute simplicity. Second Sunday in May is to be designated as a "Mother's Day" legal vacation, so that dedicated "to your mother's best mother in the world."
In the United States, Mother's Day was not born of a wish to simply treat mothers to a day off or to purchase for them present. It began essentially as a movement for women to improve other Americans' lives.
Source: The 1972 Old Farmer's Almanac
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