Mother's Day: History

Mother's  Day

Mother's Day is a day set aside to honour and appreciate Mothers.

Early in the 19 Century, Ann Reeves Javis, of West  Virginia, before the Civil war started "Mother day Work Club" with the aim of educating local women on how to take care of their children.

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The Club later became a Unifying force in the region, that was still divided by the war.

So 1868 Javins organized a "Mother's  Friendship day" where they gathered with Unions and Soldiers for reconciliation.

After the death of Ann Reeves Javis in 1905, her daughter Anna Javis conceived an the idea of honoring her mother effort and others, so decided to appreciate mothers, in the USA, for the sacrifice made for their children.

She organized the first official Mother's Day celebrations at the Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, with the financial help she received from John Wanamaker a store owner of the Philadelphia department.

Javis who was unmarried and childless throughout her life, follow up to see that her holiday was added to the national calendar,

After the success of the first Mothers day. by 1912, many adopted this annual holiday. And Javis has also organized Mother's day International Association to promote this day, and by 1914 her persistent made president Woodrow Wilson to officially signed the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. 

And so up till this day Mothers day continue to be celebrated internationally on the second Sunday of May annually.