After her sister's death in 1944, Miss Jarvis was very much alone and because of her declining health, her many friends placed her in the Marshall Square Sanitarium in West Chester, Pennsylvania. She is buried beside her mother in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. On the day of her burial, she was remembered in Grafton when the bell on the Andrews Church was tolled eighty-four times in her honor. The Anna Jarvis homeplace that dates back to before the Civil War has been remodeled and turned into a Museum and is located in Webster, West Virginia just four miles South of Grafton on Route 119 and 250. Children under 6 are free.
Bus tours are welcome and parking is ample.
If arranged in advance, a tour guide can accompany buses to historic sites. Group discounts are available by arrangements. Along with Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family were one of the first country music stars. The Carters influenced not only the numerous other family groups of the '30s and the '40s, but folk, bluegrass and rock musicians like Woody Guthrie, Bill Monroe, the Kingston Trio, Doc harmony that Watson, Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris, to mention just a few. Those hundreds of songs the trio found around their Virginia and Tennessee homes, after being sung by A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, became Carter Family songs.