Floyd T. Sargent

Historical marker location:

225 Main St, Clay, West Virginia

( Memorial is on Main Street (West Virginia Route 16) 0.1 miles east of Locust Street, on the left when traveling north.)

The first Mother's Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia in 1908. Anna Jarvis, a resident of Grafton, held a memorial for her mother, who had died two years earlier, and campaigned for a national holiday in honor of all mothers. Mother's Day became a national holiday in 1914.