Pearl Buck was a noted and popular novelist in the Twenties and Thirties. She was raised in China, and her books were often about that country and its people. Buck received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. Birthplace: Hillsboro.
The team of Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson was an intimidating force during the Civil War. Jackson was a great leader of the Confederate forces and was killed in the Battle of Chancellorsville. Birthplace: Clarksburg.
Anna Jarvis created the modern-day Mother's Day holiday in order to honor her own mother. Mother's Day celebrations were held in 1908 in Philadelphia and Grafton, West Virginia. In 1910, the states of West Virginia, Oklahoma and Washington officially declared a Mother's Day, and the nation soon followed. Birthplace: Grafton.
