Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School Room, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
1911
Description:
Interior of a Sunday school room in Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton where Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis, mother of Anna Jarvis (Mother's Day Founder) taught primary school children.
Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church Radio Show, Grafton, W. Va.
Description:
Church members broadcast over radio station WVVW at Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church (the International Mother's Day Shrine) in Grafton, West Virginia.
He preached the first Mother's Day Methodist Sermon in Andrews Methodist Church. He chose as his text John 19 chapter, 26-27 verses. "Woman, behold thy son, and to the Disciple, behold thy Mother."
L. L. Loar, Superintendent of the Sunday school of Andrews Methodist Episcopal church, Grafton, W. Va.
Description:
During the first Mother's Day service held there in 1908, led the plans for establishing the annual memorial to Motherhood. He gave of his time and money to perfect the hallowed observance at Grafton. Mr. Loar, a successful merchant at Clarksburg, a Central West Virginia town near Grafton, died in 1938.