Reuben Wesley Vandewater (1837 - 1906)

Born 16 Dec 1837 in Ontario, Canada

Husband of Anna Maria (Peterson) VandeWater — married 10 Nov 1864 in Lennox and Addington County, Canada West

Descendants

Died 11 Jan 1906 at age 68 in Toronto, Ontario

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Biography

The Vandewaters or Vanderwaters were early in New Amsterdam, Jacobus the right-hand-man of Peter Stuyvesant. The family was abundant in the Fredericksburgh-Switzerville area of Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, from the early nineteenth century. Reuben was born there in 1837, son of Francis Vandewater and Elizabeth Garrison. In 1861 he lived in Portland, Frontenac County. In 1864 he married Anna Maria Peterson. They lived in Tamworth, Harrowsmith, Kingston, and Toronto, Ontario. They had eight children. Reuben sold pianos. He died in Toronto in 1906 and was buried there in Prospect Cemetery.

Sources

Ontario Census, Frontenac County, Portland, 1861, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MQ7C-LX3

Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 (Reuben W. Vanderwater)--Ancestry.com

Ontario Census, Addington County, Sheffield, 1871 --Ancestry.com and https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M43B-1L8

Ontario Census, Kingston (city), Victoria Ward, 1881 --Ancestry.com and https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MVXJ-6LJ

Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte, p. 846; www.ourroots.ca/

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/r/m/Willie-Armstrong/GENE3-0009.html (Vandewater genealogy)

Michele's VanderWater/Parker and King/Cote Tree, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/5883722/person/-1379499138

Stickles/Lane Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/22322266/person/20007660322

Records of Shorey Peterson-2110 (Anna Maria's grandnephew) and Malcolm Powley-67 (Anna Marias's cousin).

Acknowledgments

Roger S. Peterson-2111 started this profile in 2013.