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Anna Reeves Jarvis started Mothers' Day Work Clubs in Taylor County before the Civil War to improve health and hygiene in the area. These clubs helped families get medicine, clean water, and better sanitation. During the Civil War, her clubs cared for both Union and Confederate soldiers. After the war, she worked to bring communities back together that had split over the war. Her daughter, Anna Jarvis, held the first Mother’s Day in her honor in Grafton in 1908, and it became a national holiday in 1914.
