And it all began with a prayer. In 1876, a 12-year-old Anna Jarvis sat in a Sunday school class led by her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, in Grafton, West Virginia. At the end of the lesson, Ann prayed ...

Mother's Day, a holiday established by Anna Jarvis to honor her mother ... s Day service was held in her mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia. By 1914, President Woodrow Wilson had made ...

Grafton native Anna Jarvis is widely recognized as the founder of Mother’s Day. But her mother, Ann Jarvis, played an essential and often overlooked role. According to the National Park Service ...

The holiday traces its roots to 1868, when Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis ... her daughter Anna continued her mother’s work and organized the first Mother’s Day service at St. Andrew’s Methodist Episcopal ...

Anna Jarvis was born in 1864 in West Virginia ... On May 10, 1908, the first Mother's Day service was held in Grafton, West Virginia, at what was the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church.

The American version of Mother’s Day was created by Anna ... Grafton, West Virginia. Thousands of people attended the celebration. After the great success of the Mother’s Day celebration ...

Threats against three Olentangy Local School District elementary schools are likely a hoax, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office said. The Olentangy Local School District posted a message on its ...

"This includes investigations into potential child sex trafficking." Addressing incidents at three elementary schools specifically, DHS explained that ICE agents were on campus for reasons not ...

Facing a projected $7.6 million budget deficit by 2031-32, the Kettle Moraine School Board voted 4-3 to close one of its four elementary schools. Declining enrollment and stagnant state funding ...

Now, the city is growing in her direction with new houses and the addition of Island View Elementary School, along with Horizon Junior High School opening this fall. Ellis and her neighbors are ...