Sunday is Mother's Day.

Officially, the holiday began in West Virginia in 1910 and became a national holiday in 1914.

But there are signs it was observed in Kentucky before that.

Take a look at this marker.

Mary Toles Sassine was a schoolteacher in Henderson.

Earlier today, we spoke to Donna Spencer, a genealogist from Henderson, about how Sassine started and promoted Mother's Day.

She had her class celebrate the first Mother's Day celebration as we know it in 1887.

She had parents come to the school and the students would recite poems and sing songs honoring the mothers.

She thought mothers were a very important part of keeping the.

I would say the the whole nation together.

She thought that the the core of the home was the responsibility of the mothers to provide shelter and support and security.

And from that security came a strong nation.

Now, Mary tells us she wanted to make that a national holiday and honor mothers throughout the nation.

She traveled within the school systems and seminars and in educational circles.

She got a lot of school systems to start celebrating Mother's Day.

And so that's how she worked.

She was working through the school systems and the educational system to promote this idea of Mother's Day and how to teach it to children.

Mother's Day became a reality, but only after Saint-Saens death in 1908.