This MOTHER'S DAY AND ALWAYS

Want to REMEMBER my husband's GREAT AUNT OF 7 GENERATIONS

Julia Ward Howe

She is from
 Grandpa Mark's Mom's 

side of the family.

She was the aunt to BARBARA CLOUTIER HOWE and her sister CLARISSA  HOWE.

This is the woman who helped make MOTHER'S DAY A LEGAL HOLIDAY.

GOD BLESS HER AND REST HER SOUL

SHE IS TRULY A REMARKABLE WOMAN

AND

IT IS AN HONOR TO BE A PART OF HER FAMILY

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION I RECEIVED SOMEWHERE ONLINE.

BUT, THE INFORMATION WAS USED WITH PERMISSION FROM MARK AND ANDREA CLOUTIER.

She was the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (see National Institute of

of Margaret Fuller (1883), 

From Sunset Ridge: Poems Old and New (1898), 

and Reminiscences 1819-1899 (1899).
[edit] US history
Main article: Mother's Day (United States) 

Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother's Day 

Proclamation in 1870, 
as a call for peace and disarmament. 

An excerpt follows:

“ From the voice of a devastated 
Earth a voice goes up with
 
Our own. 
It says: "Disarm! Disarm!

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." 

Blood does not wipe out dishonor, 

Nor violence indicate possession.

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,

Let women now leave all that may be left of home

For a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means 

Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Howe failed in her attempt to get formal 

recognition of a Mother's Day for Peace.
 
Her idea was influenced by Ann Jarvis, a young 

Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, 

had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers' Work Days. 

She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors. 

In parts of the United States it is customary to plant tomatoes outdoors after mother's day (and not before.) 

When Jarvis died, her daughter, named Anna Jarvis, started the crusade to found a memorial day for women. 

The first such Mother's Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908, in the church where the elder Ann Jarvis had taught 

Sunday School. Grafton is the home to the International Mother's Day Shrine.

 From there, the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. The holiday was declared officially by somes states beginning in 1912.

 In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother's Day, as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honour of those mothers whose sons had died in war (with specific reference to The Great War, now known as World War I). Nine years after the first official Mother's Day holiday, commercialization of the U.S. holiday became so rampant that 

Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of 

what the holiday had become. Mother's Day 

continues to this day to be one of the most 

commercially successful U.S. holidays. 

British history - Mothering Sunday 

Main article: Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday, commonly called 

"Mothers' Day" 
in the United Kingdom, has no direct connection to the American practice. 

It falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent (exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday). It is believed to have originated from the 16th Century Christian practice of visiting one's mother church annually, which meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this day. 

Most historians believe that young apprentices and young women in servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families.[2] 

As a result of secularization, it is now principally used to celebrate and give thanks for mothers, although it is still recognized in the historical sense by some churches, with attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus as well as the traditional concept 'mother church'.


Julia Ward Howe

Battle Hymn of the Republic
a poem by Julia Ward Howe 

 
 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fatal lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His Truth is marching on.

have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
an read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
His Day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel:
As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.'

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment-seat:
Oh! be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on. 

 
 
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
First publication date: February 1860

I do not have any copyright of this poem

or the song version

This is only published in honor and rememberance of a

remarkable woman related to the  Howe - Cloutier Family

This is soley for future family generations.

copyright belongs to Julia Ward Howe

I just think it is soo cool, I remember growing up to this song.

And to find this woman is related to my children is remarkable.

She is a hero in my eyes.

She is so totally someone I would have loved to have met.