MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: William W. and Lillis Wood Consaul

"The Consaul Family" - Lottie Wickenden Ogden and Homer Edgar Wickenden wrote a short history of the Consaul family.  This information was originally included as part of Chapter I on Family History in the Memoirs of the Thomas Rogers Wickenden Family.   Memoirs, The Consauls.pdf 

Lottie Wickenden remembers that 'Grandmother Consaul was still living on the farm and I have memories of visiting there during this period, going to the country school with Jennie and Jessie, of playing around the log house in which Mother had been born, and also going over to Uncle Jason Consaul house not far away. His farm is now a part of Collins Park and at this time his house is still standing and occupied by one of the park caretakers. The original farm of Great-Grandfather Consaul is now the site of the Toledo Filtration Plant and Water Works Pumping Station (emphasis added)" (Lottie, p.3)Google Maps view of Jason Consaul's house from ad for the golf course that used to be his farm and overlooking Grandfather Consaul's farm that is now the Toledo Waterworks

Google Maps image of Jason Consaul's probable farmhouse at edge of Collins Park This old farmhouse at the edge of Collins Park may have been Uncle Jason Consaul's farmhouse, and the Toledo Water tower to the right, which is part of the Pumping Station, stands on what was once the original farm of Great-Grandfather Consaul. Collins Park is a beautiful, large park and 9-hole golf course and the road leading a short distance from the Maumee River out to the park is named Consul Street. There is also a Consaul Food Mart one block from the road, which is two blocks from Starr Avenue and about a mile from the Wickenden house at 602 Starr Avenue.

Consaul Street leading to the Consaul Farm, now Collins Park (Google Maps)The Wickenden home at 602 Starr Avenue is just across Sixth Street from the Helping Hands of St. Louis (see icon in the lower left-hand corner of this map) which used to be the Catholic Church,.  Jason Consaul's farmhouse and the Toledo water tower (see pictures above) are at the lower right-hand corner of Collins Park, on Consaul Street.  Since Thomas Rogers Wickenden and Ida Consaul met at a Baptist Church in East Toledo where Ida was the organist and Thomas sang in the choir, it is not surprising that the Consaul homestead and the Wickenden homes were within walking distance of each other.

Lottie, the oldest of the siblings, remembers when Grandfather and Grandmother Consaul were living on the farm.  Grandfather died in February of1883.  Lottie writes that when Grandmother Consaul was still living on the farm, she has "memories of visiting there during this period, going to the country school with Jennie and Jessie, of playing around the log house in which Mother had been born, and also going over to Uncle Jason Consaul's house not far away.  His farm is now a part of Collins Park and at this time [1962] his house is still standing and occupied by one of the park caretakers.  The original farm of Great-Grandfather Consaul is now the site of the Toledo Filtration Plant and Water Works Pumping Station.  Grandmother sold her farm and moved to the city on Oswald Street about 1885" (Lottie, p. 12).  

Obituary - Ida Consaul W obit.pdf