| Birth: | c. May 1, 1864 | | Death: | Nov. 24, 1948 | 
Founder of Mother's Day. Petitioned Congress to create a holiday honoring all Mothers after the death of her own mother. President Woodrow Wilson signed Mother's Day into law in 1914. Towards the end of her life, Anna Jarvis came to detest her creation, due to the over commercialization of it by the public. She tried to fight this commercialization in the last years of her life.
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Parents:
Ann Reeves Jarvis (1834 - 1905)
Search Amazon for Anna Jarvis | | | Burial:
West Laurel Hill Cemetery
Bala Cynwyd
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section: River
GPS (lat/lon): 40.01837, -75.2198 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 542 |
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