Born in San Fernando de Bexar (San Antonio), Juan N. Seguin was the son of Erasmo Seguin, whose ancestors came to America about 1700. In 1834, Juan N. Seguin and his father rallied fellow Texans against dictator Santa Anna. He raised Mexican-Texan troops and fought in the Siege of Bexar in 1835. He provided horses for the soldiers of Col. W. B. Travis and further aided as a courier during the Siege of the Alamo. Between the fall of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, he led his Co. A, 2nd Regiment, Texas Cavalry, as rear guard for Gen. Sam Houston, protecting civilians fleeing before Santa Anna's army. His men and Moseley Baker's troops held San Felipe, preventing the Mexican Army from crossing the Brazos there. Seguin's unit then joined Sam Houston's army and fought in the Battle of San Jacinto. In May 1836, he gave military burial to the ashes of the heroes of the Alamo. From 1837 to 1840 he served the Republic of Texas as a senator. The town of Walnut Springs on the Guadalupe changed its name on Feb. 25, 1839, to Seguin in his honor. Juan N. Seguin married Maria Gertrudis Flores. At his death he was buried in Nuevo Laredo, where his grave was cared for by citizens of the City of Seguin. In 1974, citizens of Seguin brought his remains to the city, and on July 4, 1976, the Bicentennial Committee and the City of Seguin reinterred them in a hillside plot overlooking the Guadalupe River Valley about one mile southwest, above the old road and ford to the south, a site well known to him and now part of the city park system.