Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis (born September 30, 1832 in Culpeper, Virginia , † May 9, 1905 in Bala-Cynwyd, west of Philadelphia ) is the mother of Anna Marie Jarvis and is commonly referred to as the "mother of Mother's Day ".
Life
Ann Jarvis wife was the pastor Granville E. Jarvis and in the area of the current West Virginia in the charity active. She had founded the Mothers Days Works Club as early as 1858 with the aim of eliminating sanitary problems among the workforce, promoting health in families and thus counteracting high child mortality. The clubs collected donations to buy medicine and organized housekeeping for families with mothers suffering from tuberculosis. During the American Civil War , she organized women through Mother's Friendship Days , with the aim of providing essentials to the wounded on both sides. After the war she became active in promoting Mother's Day , a holiday at the time based on pacifism and social service. In the post-war period she organized meetings of the soldiers' mothers on both sides.
Her daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis, was born in Webster, Taylor County, West Virginia, and did her best to carry on with her mother's work. Three years after her death, a memorial service was held for her and dedicated to all of the mothers. It was the unofficially first Mother's Day, celebrated on the Sunday in the second week of May 1908. 500 white and red carnations, her mother's favorite flowers, were given to the mothers of her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia, by Anna Marie in front of the church. "The carnation does not shed its petals, but presses them to their hearts (...) this is also how mothers press their children to their hearts." Maternal love never dies, declared Jarvis. So she kept fighting - because Mother's Day should finally become a national holiday. Jarvis maintained correspondence with politicians and organizations for six years. With success. She saw the American flag hoisted on the first national Mother's Day in 1914. One day after the ninth anniversary of her mother's death. Just in time for the next war. With the First World War, Mother's Day became international.
For Anne Maria Jarvis, the carnation - the symbol of Mother's Day - turned into a thorny rose. She felt the intimate sense of that day being abused by commerce. With the instincts of a mother lion, she wanted to protect her intellectual baby against profit hunters through copyright lawsuits. Unsuccessful. She lost her fortune fighting against commercialization. At the age of 84 she died in an American sanatorium. Childless, but as the mother of Mother's Day.
Web links
- "International Mother's Day Shrine" (Memorial for International Mother's Day in Grafton / USA; English)
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- West Virginia History Center: Women
- www.wvculture.org: Anna Jarvis (WV_A & H literature + articles; engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rachel Hämmerli: Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis invented Mother's Day. May 12, 2019, accessed May 12, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jarvis, Ann Maria Reeves |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Mother of Mother's Day |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Culpeper, Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1905 |
| Place of death | Bala-Cynwyd near Philadelphia |