Juan Seguin
Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas
Marker Inscription
In 1974, the citizens of Seguin brought the remains of Juan Seguin to this city. On July 4, 1976, the Bicentennial Committee and the City of Seguin reinterred the remains of Juan Seguin in a hillside plot overlooking the Guadalupe River Valley. The site (about one mile southwest of here) is above the old road and ford to the south and was well known to Juan Seguin. His grave is covered with a marble slab and the site is a part of the city park system.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Nearly a century after Tejano hero Juan Seguín died in exile, the people of Seguin brought his remains home in 1974, and on July 4, 1976, the city reinterred him in a hillside plot overlooking the Guadalupe River Valley he knew well. His grave, near an old road and river ford he would have recognized, lies beneath a marble slab within the city park system.
Why it matters
The reburial reclaimed a Tejano founder of the Republic for the town that bears his name, an act of memory restoring him to the American story he helped write.
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