Post Namesake
Jul 14, 1920
H.U. Wood Post 245, Seguin, Texas was named in honor of Army Private Horace Urban Wood, a highly patriotic young man, who was killed in action in France. Horace Urban 'Urb' Wood was born in Round Rock, Texas on December 4, 1894. His family moved to Cuero, Texas where his father published the Cuero Record. The Wood family moved to Seguin, Texas in 1904, where his father Horace Greely Wood purchased the Guadalupe Gazette newspaper...