I am currently searching for the inspiration and source of the "JARVIS" part of James Jarvis Carden's name.

He was the son of Rev. JAMES JIMMERSON CARDEN  born June 03, 1842 in Orange Co., NC, and  SARAH FRANCES 'SALLIE' FOY,

JAMES JARVIS CARDEN, b. May 08, 1887, West Virgina

Rev. JAMES JIMMERSON CARDEN timeline

1884  Prince George Mission, Prince Georges County MD  Methodist minister in East Baltimore District.
1884  Maryland Transferred to Baltimore Conference
1885  Springfield, MD  Methodist minister in Moorefield District.
1886  Springfield, MD Methodist minister in Moorefield District.
1887  Springfield, MD  Methodist minister in Moorefield District.
1887   May 8   West Virginia Son, James Jarvis Carden, born
1888  NC  Lawsuit with Gaston begun  Southeastern Reporter, Vol. 12, Page 197
1889  NC  Transferred back to North Carolina  Gerry Reiff Dec 8, 1998 Letter

husband
Granville E. Jarvis  (age 58 in 1887)  - - - - - - Rev. JAMES JIMMERSON CARDEN (age 45 in 1887)
Birth : 1829 Pruntytown, Taylor Co., WV
Death : 31 Dec 1902 Grafton, Taylor Co., WV

wife
Reeves, Ann Marie
Birth : 30 Sep 1832 Culpepper Co., VA
Death : 9 May 1905 Philadelphia, PA

child
Jarvis, Anna (The Founder of Mothers Day)
Birth : 1 May 1864
Death : 24 Nov 1948
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FRANKFORT COMMUNITY
Methodist History

The earliest account we have of the history of the Methodist  denomination in this community as a regular appointment on the Springfield circuit, then embracing parts of three counties: Hampshire, Hardy, and what is now Mineral, was in 1851. Although, for at least a quarter of a century prior to this date, work  had been done at irregular intervals. Rev. Jesse K. Powers was  the first regular pastor of the Frankfort M. E. Church,  South, Moorefield District, Baltimore Conference. Rev.  Charles Torrison was pastor during the Civil War.

The place of worship was a log building located opposite the  present Methodist Church and on the corner opposite the school building. It was formerly owned by the Episcopalians.

This building was used many years as a union church, by  Methodist and Presbyterians.

Methodist pastors, who served this church since the Conference  held in Alexandria, Va" March, 1866, until 1880, were as follows: John W. Tongue, M. G. Balthis, J. B. Fitzpatrick, Wm.  Hedges, Leonidas Butt, Jas. Beatty, L. H. Davis, Jas. H. Wolfe, T. G. Nevitt, John D. C. Hanna, Henry P. Hamill, Sylvanus  Townsen, W m. Henry Wolfe, John W. Wolfe, Wm. R. Marshall, and E. G. Van Diver.

Class leaders and Sunday School Superintendents in the old  church were as follows: Dr. Haines, Jacob Marker. Solomon Alkire, Jas. H. Dowden, and Dr. Hodgson.

During the pastorate of Rev. E. G. Van Diver the present  Methodist Church was built and dedicated. In an old record  is found the following: "Trinity Church, Frankfort, dedicated  November 21, 1880. Trustees:

1. Hiram Alkire, Pres. (elected to fill the place of J. A. Marker, deceased.)
2. Jas. Dowden
3. Benjamin Haines, Sec.
4. M. T. Davis
5. D. D. Davis
6. John A. Robinson, Treas.
7. Dr. H. W. Hodgson.

The property was deeded by Hiram Alkire to the Board, all duly  recorded in Deed Book No. 8, County Records.

The earliest record we have of Knobley appointment is also in  the year 1880. On September 17, 1897, a committee, appointed by the Quarterly Conference held at Centenary Church, composed of  Geo. H. Zimmerman, P. E. and J. A. Robinson, and E. S. Parker, met at Knobley for the purpose of selecting a site for  a church to be erected by the congregation at Knobley. The place selected by the committee was a plot of ground belonging to Mr.  B. H. Ward, donated for that purpose, and lying on the main road passing in front of the Public School House. Preferably,  the part of said lot lying towards the school house and terminating at the gate leading to the G. H. Baker farm, now owned by  Oliver J. Dayton. It was further recommended by the committee that sufficient land be secured for a cemetery. Due to local  conditions these plans never materialized.

Some of the leaders in the work of the church at this  appointment have been John Culp, P. M. Dayton, B. H. Ward,  and Robert Dayton.

Pastors since 1880 are registered as follows: S. V. Hildebrand,  L. Butt, J. J. Garden, F. T. Griffith, W. F. Locke, L. M. Lyle, and S. D. Bennington, C. W. Stump, J. J. Ringer, H. T. Heironimus,  S. A. Parker, O. W. Lusby, G. D. Kidner, J. W. Mitchell, H. M. Strickler, C. E. Simmons, G. H. Echols, Thos. Morgan, H. L.  Myerly, Geo. W. Yost, G. G. Oliver, H. A. Wilson, Wilfred Lawson, John Edwards, M. S. Hildebrand, C. O. Calvert, G. W.  Yost, and A. A. P. Neel.

In 1890 during the pastorate of L. M. Lyle and W. F. Locke  the church at Short Gap was built. The site was given by Jacob Daniels, and the ground broken by Jas. H. Long and Sons, who  did much toward its erection. J. Hunter Robinson was the contractor and builder, and made a liberal contribution to the  work. Some of the leaders in the work of this church have been B. H. Ward, Allen Everstine, J. H. Long, C. H. Long, John Sneathen,  D. P. Day, F. P. Grace, and E. K. Blauch.

During the pastorate of H. M. Strickler, in 1903, the church  was erected at Dans Run; although, it had been a part of the  work of Springfield charge, for at least twenty years previous, known  as Sulphur Springs appointment. An Epworth League was organized in 1900 with Mr. Edward Ward as president. Rev.  C. E. Simmons re-organized the Epworth League in 1905 with Miss Stella Wagoner as president. Other leaders in this church have  been J. U. Wagoner, J. E. Keller, Wm. Mc. Wagoner, Jas. M. Wagoner, Mrs. Clarke Wetzel, Lucius Hinkle, J. W. Smith, Edgar  L. Wagoner, and Herman Dorman.
Sunday School Superintendents and other leaders in the Frankfort  Church are as follows: John Blair, Wm. Reese, John Cheshire, Geo. Fisher, M. H. Hawkins, Benj. Haines, M. T. Davis, Floyd  Dowden, Samuel Sneathen, Mora Wagoner, Geo. Deremer, Chas. Deremer, and C. C. Wetzel.

While Rev. S. A. Parker was pastor in 1896 the first Epworth  League in this community was organized at Frankfort, with J. E. Broome as president and Dr. Percival Lantz as secretary. After  about five years of faithful work, local conditions brought  about a cessation of the organization. In 1912 Rev. Geo. G. Oliver  effected an organization, with M. H. Hawkins as president and Mrs. Hazel Adams Armstrong as secretary.

Since that time the work has been carried forward so that  now we have a strong and efficient League with Mrs. D. H.  Weakland, as president, and Mrs. Blanch Welker, secretary. Rev. H. L.  Myerly manifested great interest in the children. During his two years' pastorate, 1910-1912, he baptized more than one hundred  children in this community.

In 1916, upon the recommendation of Rev. Wilfred Lawson,  Springfield charge was again divided; the first division  having been made in 1890, when the southern part took the name of  Slanesville charge. Upon this second division the Methodist  churches in this community became a part of what is known as Frankfort charge.

Of the pastors who have served since that time, Rev. Geo. W.  Yost deserves special mention for his four years faithful service, the value of which can never be measured until the final  consummation of all things.

The entire community mourns the sudden death of the Presiding  Elder, Dr. J. H. Light, December 29, 1924, whose fourth year of faithful and efficient work in the Moorefield District was  almost completed.

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The memorial now known as Mothers Day was founded by Anna Jarvis in tribute to her mother, Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis. The first fully organized Mothers Day program was held at the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908. The honored mother had already laid the foundation for such a day in the last fifty years of her life.

Ann Marie Reeves came to West Virginia at age twelve when her father, the Rev. Josiah W. Reeves, a Methodist minister, was transferred from Culpepper Co., Virginia to Philippi in Barbour County. Seven years later, in 1850, at the age of seventeen, Ann Marie married Granville E. Jarvis, son of a Baptist minister. The couple lived in Philippi for a short time and then moved to Webster in Taylor County where Granville began his career as a merchant.

Ann was the mother of eleven children, but only four lived to adulthood. In spite of the large family and the tragedies that occurred, Mrs. Jarvis was active in church and civic affairs. Most remarkable was the work she did to combat poor health and sanitation conditions that existed in Webster and in many other neighborhoods, and which attributed to the high mortality rate of children. After eight years of marriage, at the age of twenty-six, the young housewife and mother sprang into action to combat these conditions and called on all women in Webster, Philippi, Pruntytown, Fetterman and Grafton to meet at at local churches where she organized clubs, known as Mothers Day Work Clubs.  She called on her brother, Dr. James Edmund Reeves and Dr. Amos Payne of Pruntytown to advise and lecture her organizations. These two eminent physicians charted the tasks for the clubs to undertake.  Members were assigned certain duties to perform in a certain length of time, and their work was inspected by the two doctors and nurses from surrounding communities. The clubs furnished women to care for families with tubercular mothers, medicine was provided for the indigent, and milk for children was inspected. The clubs were honored for successfully carrying out their plans and solving a local community problem.

In 1861, another need for the Mothers Day Work Clubs was pending. After both Lee and McClellan gave orders to hold the Grafton railroad terminus at all costs, much of Taylor County, including the community of Webster, soon became an armed camp of both Union and Confederates. Mrs. Jarvis quickly sensed possible disruption in the clubs and called an urgent meeting, The group heard Mrs. Jarvis objectives: "To make a sworn-to agreement between members that friendship and good will should obtain in the clubs for the duration and aftermath of the war. That all efforts to divide the churches and lodges should not only be frowned upon but prevented."

When an epidemic of typhoid fever and measles broke out among the military personnel, Mrs. Jarvis and her Mothers Day Work Clubs were called upon for help. Her answer was "You shall have it. .. No mistreatment of any of our members. We are composed of both the Blue and the Gray." The clubs subsequently received the highest commendations from officers and soldiers for the magnificent services rendered the sick soldiers.

After the Civil War, public officials sought a way to alleviate post-war strife, and once more Mrs. Jarvis was called upon to help. She rallied the members of her clubs to meet at the Pruntytown Courthouse, and there they planned a "Mothers Friendship Day" to be held in Pruntytown, the county seat. The members were to invite all soldiers, Blue and Gray, and their families. An immense crowd arrived on the designated day. When the program started, Mrs. Jarvis appeared dressed in gray, and another women appeared dressed in blue. Two teenage girls assembled with the Pruntytown band on the courthouse porch, and a bugler called the crowd to assemble. Mrs. Jarvis explained the purpose of Mothers Friendship Day and asked the band to lead them in singing Way Down South in Dixie. The lady in blue then asked the band to lead her and the audience in singing The Star Spangled Banner. Cheering and laughter followed, the two young girls took the hands of Mrs. Jarvis and the lady in blue and asked them to shake hands and hug each other. They then called on the crowd to do the same thing while band played Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot. By the time the song was over, it seemed that everyone began to weep and shake hands.

In addition to her work with the Mothers Day Work Clubs, Mrs. Jarvis was active in her church. When the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church was completed in 1873, Mrs. Jarvis was on hand to take over as assistant superintendent in the primary department of the church school. For over a quarter of a century, she taught young children and saw many of the children grow into manhood and womanhood and bring their own little ones to her class.

Anna Jarvis' life revolved around the church. Under Granville's leadership, the Andrews Methodist Church was built in Grafton and dedicated in 1873. Anna taught Sunday School at the church for the next twenty-five years.

Mrs. Jarvis was not only an exceptional teacher, but also a talented, informed speaker. She lectured many times in well-filled churches on subjects as "The Value of Literature as a Source of Culture and Refinement", "Importance of Supervised Recreational Centers for Boys and Girls", and "The Great Mothers of the Bible".

After the death of her husband, Granville E. Jarvis, in 1902, Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis and her daughters, Anna and Lillie, moved to Philadelphia to live with her son, Claude. Mrs. Jarvis died there on May 9, 1905, at the age of 72. She is buried in the beautiful West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. On the day she was laid to rest, the bell of Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton was tolled seventy-two times in her honor.