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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Explore Carroll: Did a former Westminster man put Mother's Day on track?

Explore Carroll: Did a former Westminster man put Mother's Day on track?


Kevin Dayhoff Explore Carroll Did a former Westminster man put Mother's Day on track

Did a former Westminster man put Mother's Day on track?

EAGLE ARCHIVE

By Kevin Dayhoff


From my column in www.explorecarroll.com on Mother's Day... May 9, 2010

I've read a number of accounts about the origins of Mother's Day. They vary in detail but are relatively consistent. Many years ago, The Sun ran a version in the story, "Mother's Day actually began as a memorial observance."

It noted that, "Anna Reeves Jarvis had organized 'work days' for mothers in West Virginia to heal the divisions of the Civil War, and often spoke of wanting to establish a day to honor mothers.

"When she died on May 9, 1905, her daughter, Anna Jarvis, took up the cause. The first Mother's Day service took place at a Methodist Episcopal church in Grafton, W.Va., two years later, with Jarvis sending 500 white carnations for those in attendance to wear."
Perhaps, we prefer a Carroll County version of the tale?

Well, on May 10, 1998, local historian Jay Graybeal wrote an article for the Historical Society of Carroll County in which he noted that a May 9, 1942, issue of a Binghamton, N.Y., newspaper published a slightly different history of Mother's Day… 

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