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Juan Nepomuceno Seguin was born on October 27, 1806, in San Antonio de Bexar, Province of Texas, Viceroyalty of New Spain, to Juan José María Erasmo Seguin, a second-generation Bexareño, and Maria Josefa Becerra. As the son of a postal administrator, he would help his mother in business, while his father was one of the drafting rapporteurs ...
[117] One year after the battle, Juan Seguin returned to the Alamo and gathered the remaining ashes from the funeral pyre. He placed these in a coffin inscribed with the names of Bowie, Travis, and Crockett. The ashes were interred at the Cathedral of San Fernando. [118]
That evening, they lit a fire and burned their bodies to ashes. [154] The ashes were left undisturbed until February 1837, when Juan Seguin and his cavalry returned to Bexar to examine the remains. A local carpenter created a simple coffin, and ashes from the funeral pyres were placed inside.
A year after the battle, acting upon orders from General Felix Huston, Colonel Juan Seguín oversaw the reclamation of the abandoned ashes of the Alamo defenders from three sites. On March 28, 1837, an official public ceremony was conducted to give a Christian burial to the ashes.
By dawn, the entire town was in ashes or flames. [ 71 ] Volunteers from San Felipe de Austin who had been organized under Captain John Bird on March 5 to reinforce the men at the Alamo [ 72 ] had been en route to San Antonio de Béxar on March 13 when approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of Gonzales they encountered fleeing citizens and a ...
Juan Seguin's volunteers [Note 2] Simon Arreola — — — survivor Juan Seguin's volunteers [Note 2] Micajah Autry: PVT 1793 [32] North Carolina fatality [33] Juan A. Badillo: SGT — Texas fatality [34] Peter James Bailey III: PVT 1812 Kentucky fatality Namesake of Bailey County, Texas [35] Isaac G. Baker: PVT 1814 Arkansas fatality Gonzales ...
An affidavit was signed by Juan Seguin on February 6, 1875, affirming that Luciano was indeed a member of Seguin's company and had entered the Alamo with Seguin himself and Jim Bowie. Luciano was sent by Seguin and William Travis to fetch a trunk from Seguin's rancho. Upon returning, he was unable to reenter the Alamo due to Mexican patrols. [64]
p. 58 - Seguin etal. accompany Houston during the Runaway Scrape; pp. 59-61 - Battle of San Jacinto; p. 61 Thomas Rusk on May 30 ordered Juan Seguin to recruit a battalion of soldiers. pp. 61-64 - Centralist Tejanos pp. 61-63 - Captain Manuel Sabriego at La Bahia tried to capture federalists, especially Carbajal, at Victoria. Unsuccessful ...