Historical Marker

Stalnaker Plantation / Old Stalnaker Family Cemetery

Historical marker location:
Glenville, West Virginia
( Marker is on Little Kanawha Parkway (West Virginia Route 5) just west of Millseat Run Road (Local Road 24/2), on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2004

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.