Casa Blanca and Juan Seguin

About two miles out of Floresville and about thirty miles from San Antonio, there was a small house on a small ranch. The house had a name; it was called "Casa Blanca". Casa Blanca was the home of Juan Seguin and his mother and father. The house was called "Casa Blanca" because it was made out of white adobe. In Spanish "Casa Blanca" means "White House". Stephen F. Austin once enjoyed the hospitality of the Seguin's adobe home.

Juan Seguin's mother's name was Doña Josefa; his father's name was Don Erasmo. Juan Seguin had many brothers and sisters. He had a horse named La Reina. In Spanish "La Reina" means "The Queen".

Juan Seguin was a colonel at the Alamo; then he was the mayor of San Antonio. Juan N. Seguin was famous as an Alamo fighter. He was the kind of person who wanted to help the world be a safe place for children. He was also the kind of person who wanted to teach kids that they could do any thing they want to do. Juan Seguin was one of the Texians of Mexican heritage to fight in the Alamo. He did not die in the Alamo because he was also a messenger and had been sent to ask for reinforcements. He also helped Sam Houston move people from Gonzales to Washington-on- the-Brazos during the Runaway Scrape. Seguin helped capture Santa Anna at San Jacinto. (Santa Anna was caught taking a nap under a tree!) In addition, Seguin was a Texas lawmaker.

Today there is a town near San Antonio called Seguin.
This town was named after Juan N. Seguin, who died in Laredo, Texas. His body was moved from Laredo to Seguin. (You can see a picture of his grave in my Seguin photo gallery.)

Much of my information and some photos are taken out of the book, A Revolution Remembered.
(Seguin, Juan A Revolution Remembered, The memoirs and selected correspondence of Juan N. Seguin" Ed. Jesus F. de la Teja, ed., State House Press, Austin, 1991) and the book Juan Seguin; A Hero of Texas. (Kerr, Rita. Juan Sequin; A Hero of Texas, Austin, Texas, Eakin Press, 1985.)