SEGUIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, Born: October 27, 1806,
San Fernando de Bejar, New Spain, (San Antonio, Texas), Died: August 27,
1889.
Father: Juan Jose Maria Erasmo de Jesus Seguin,
Native Born Texan
Mother: Josefa Augustina Bercerra (Seguin)
Native Born Texan
Wife: Maria Gertrudis Eusevia Flores (Seguin)
Native Born Texan
The Colonel was a native born Texan as was his father and his father before him. Many events in the lives of Juan Seguin and of his father Erasmo Seguin led to the struggle for the eventual independence of our beautiful and great state of Texas, as we know it today. The Seguin/Carvajal families were hard working and peaceful people. They believed in freedoms that we enjoy today and freedoms we so often take for granted. They were people who were fair-minded and regarded their families, friends, and fellow countrymen in all their actions. They did not like nor tolerate injustices, yes, even back then, they fought for basic human rights for all native Texans, and citizens to be of Texas, thus they were not willing to step aside at the risk of personal ridicule, danger or threats of death. Col. Juan N. Seguin was one of the most gallant of all heroes of the Texas war for Independence. He early sensed the threat of tyranny when the Mexican Constitution of 1824 was disregarded in which among other stipulations, granted All Citizens and Subjects of Mexico their Basic Human Rights. In 1835 Juan N. Seguin sought to convene the first revolutionary meeting in protest of the devastating demands and actions of Santa Anna's government. Juan Seguin was the first to sound the alarm of impending danger to the way of life and liberty that Texans had all enjoyed up to that point in time. He was a son, husband, father, statesman, veteran commander of many battles; he was a scholar, the savior of San Antonio Texas and namesake for the city of Seguin Texas.
Col. Juan N. Seguin was and is a legendary figure as a leader in the Texas Revolution. He was and is an unsung hero of Texas. A legendary figure who has seldom been given credit for his and his families contributions in helping in the evolution of Texas as we now know it today.
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