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I noticed someone else has an entry with information on this man and his home. My entry is from the book "Houses Virginians Have Loved" by Agnes Rothery, 1954. I am not researching this family, just thought someone might be helped by this information:
"Another house which was built, in 1767, with an eye to the Indians is Lone Oak, with a basement dug for this protection. Colonel Thomas Tosh acquired the original grant, which included several thousand acres of land on the Roan Oak - now Roanoke - River, from the Crown in 1748. Today the city of Roanoke stands upon part of this land, but Lone Oak, although within the city limits, maintains a five-acre tract."
"Colonel Tosh took ten years to construct the house. (It) was used as headquarters by General Andrew Lewis...Col. Tosh seems to have remained on remarkable friendly terms with the red men. They visited him frequently and there is no record of any one of the household everhaving recourse to the shelter provided in the basement. It was the first brick house in this region. Jonathan Tosh inherited the mansion and offered hospitality to a traveling widow. He married her and she inherited the house."
"The house was originally called Rock of Ages in reference to the rock ledges on which it stands. It remained in the Tosh family and in the Lewis family - Elizabeth Tosh married a nephew of General Andrew Lewis - until 1901, when it passed into the hands of a kinswoman of the Lewis, Mrs. Lawrence S. Davis, (who) changed the name to Lone Oak."
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