Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis --Sept. 30, 1832-May 9, 1905

Anna Jarvis was the name of two women: mother and daughter. Both played a real part in the establishing of Mother's Day.

Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis was born on Sept. 30, 1832 in Culpepper, Virgina. She worked around what is now West Virginia to promote worker health and safety concerns. During the American Civil War, she organized women to tend to the needs of the wounded of both sides. After the way she became active in the promotion of Mother's Day, a holiday at that time involved with the causes of pacifism and social activism. She organized meetings of mothers of soldiers of both sides of the late war.