Herbert was born in Tamworth, Ontario, in 1870. He was with his family in Kingston, Ontario, in 1881 and 1891. He married Bertha Pansegrau in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1895. In 1900 they were in Garretson, South Dakota. They were in Muskegon, Michigan, from before 1906 until about 1921, and thereafter in San Diego County, California. They had a son and a daughter. He died at San Diego in 1945 and was buried there in Greenwood Memorial Park.
Ontario Births, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FMSY-YDD
Ontario Census, Addington County, Sheffield, 1871--Ancestry.com
Ontario Census, Frontenac County, Kingston City Victoria Ward, 1881--Ancestry.com
U.S. Census, Michigan, Muskegon County, Muskegon, Ward 5, 1910--Ancestry.com
U.S. Census, Michigan, Muskegon County, Muskegon, Precinct 13, 1920 --Ancestry.com
U.S. Census, California, San Diego County, La Mesa, 1930--Ancestry.com
U.S. Census, California, San Diego County, San Diego, Councilmanic District 3, 1940--Ancestry.com
California, Death Index, 1940-1997 (George H. Vanderwater)--Ancestry.com
Funeral program, Lewis Mortuary, San Diego, 15 Sep 1945
The Canadian Van de Water Family, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/r/m/Willie-Armstrong/GENE3-0009.html
Michele's VanderWater/Parker and King/Cote Tree, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/5883722/person/925786830
Records of Shorey Peterson-2110, and correspondence from Herbert's granddaughter Barbara W. (Cutler) Sirois with Roger Peterson-2111.
Profile begun in 2013 by Roger S. Peterson-2111. (As a five-year-old living in San Diego in 1936 I knew Herbert and family. -- R.S.P.)
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