Rambie-Lewis Family Cemetery
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Marker Text: 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)
Marker No: 4173
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: 29.200888, -98.647446
Location: off of Smith Road between Ernst and Hickman Roads, Sommerset
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Location: It is directly along Smith Road in front of the house just east of Heickman Cemetery. It can be difficult to spot due to heavy weed growth. In far southwest Bexar County, south of the town of Somerset.