Juan N. Seguin
In late October, Maria Josefa Becerra and Erasmo Seguin gave birth to Juan Nepomuceno Seguin. Younger brothers soon to follow. He then began schooling but not formally, more of homeschool method. In his free time he chose to do community service or help his mother at the post office she ran, since he wasn't allowed in the Mexican congress office in which his father worked. He worked with his family until he was 19 and married Maria Gertrudis Flores de Abrego. They got married right there in San Antonio Cathedral. He then began the next chapter of his life. With his new life he held several different political positions such as mayor, judge, and the justice of peace. Juan Seguin also served in Congress. He subsequently held various electoral …show more content…
Juan’s military career in 1835. In the spring Seguin lead the militia in response to the Federalist state governor’s for support against the Centralist opposition. Later in October, during the battle of Gonzales Juan was appointed rank of captain in the Texan army by Stephen F. Austin for his raising of company of thirty seven. His company helped in the fall of 1835 in scouting and supplying operations for the revolutionary army.Went to fight in The Alamo, because he volunteered to go to San Antonio with good Ol´ Ben Milam. He entered the Alamo when Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s army arrived He was then named courier in the Alamo. When Seguin reached Gonzales he organized a company, that was the only Tejano unit to battle at the Battle of San Jacinto, that was used as a rear guard of Sam Houston’s army. In 1837 Juan Seguin directed burial services of the remainder of the deceased Alamo warriors. Before that Juan Seguin fought and won the battle of Concepcion in 1835 with Texas. Juan also fought in the siege of Bexar and named political chief of the Department of Bexar, after the previous chief became ill and retired, but still had time for his wife, Marìa, and 10