Rambie-Lewis Family Cemetery

The nearby town took its name from settlers of the same years. Somerset was named for a settlement begun in 1848 a few miles south, in present Atascosa County, by Baptist families from Somerset, Kentucky. The present town site was laid out on the Artesian Belt Railroad in 1909, and in 1913 Carl Kurz, drilling for artesian water, struck oil instead. The Somerset field, stretching toward Pleasanton, was then the largest known shallow oilfield in the world, and the town grew from fifty residents in 1925 to 700 in 1928 before the Depression brought decline.

What the plaque says

Rambie-Lewis Family Cemetery This family cemetery, consisting of three graves, is a physical reminder of the hardships faced by 19th century pioneer families. Aaron Rambie, a Pennsylvania native who came to Texas about 1848, married a neighbor, Ginsey Ann Lewis, In 1854. When Ginsey died in 1862 at the age of twenty-seven, she was buried here on land owned by her father, Levi Lewis, Jr. Lewis's son, warren, died in June 1863 at the age of one year and was also buried here. Aaron and Gensey's eight-year-old daughter, Mary Abigail, died in July 18633 and was buried next to her mother. (1991)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission Espada and the Espada Aqueduct — 14 mi
  The southernmost San Antonio mission and the oldest Spanish aqueduct in the United States, still carrying river water over Sixmile Creek to the fields after nearly three centuries.
• Mission San Juan — 15 mi
  The mission near the river bend where the San Antonio got its name in 1691, with an unfinished church foundation and farm fields still watered by an eighteenth-century acequia.
• San Antonio Missions National Historical Park — 15 mi
  Four working parish churches on the Mission Trail south of downtown, with the visitor center at Mission San Jose, the Queen of the Missions, and the descendants who still worship there.
• Mission Concepción — 16 mi
  A stone church dedicated in 1755 that has never fallen into ruin, its convento ceilings still painted, and the ground where the Texas Revolution's fight for San Antonio began.

More markers nearby

• Ruiz-Herrera Cemetery — 5.4 mi
• The Rev. John Wesley DeVilbiss — 5.5 mi
• Oak Island Methodist Church and Cemetery — 5.5 mi
• Enoch Jones Farmstead — 5.5 mi