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==Background==

==Background==

Born in [[village]] of Florien in Sabine Parish, he resided in the [[Shreveport]]-[[Bossier City]] metropolitan area for most of his life.<ref name=obit>Ned O. Touchstone obituary, 'The Shreveport Times,'' July 30, 1988.</ref>​  

Born in the [[village]] of Florien in Sabine Parish, he resided in the [[Shreveport]]-[[Bossier City]] metropolitan area for most of his life.<ref name=obit>Ned O. Touchstone obituary, 'The Shreveport Times,'' July 30, 1988.</ref>​  

Touchstone was a descendant of Richard Touchstone (1657-1729), a [[New Jersey]] native who settled in [[Maryland]]. Another of his ancestors was Captain Benjamin Merrell (1731-1771) of Mercer County, New Jersey, who was [[Hanging|hanged]], drawn, and quartered in [[North Carolina]] in an early attack on the [[Great Britain|British]] crown.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/mckstorymerrell.htm|title=The Merrell Family|publisher=[[Texas A&M University]]|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref> Other family members were pioneers in 1798 in the settlement of [[Mississippi]].​

Touchstone was a descendant of Richard Touchstone (1657-1729), a [[New Jersey]] native who settled in [[Maryland]]. Another of his ancestors was Captain Benjamin Merrell (1731-1771) of Mercer County, New Jersey, who was [[Hanging|hanged]], drawn, and quartered in [[North Carolina]] in an early attack on the [[Great Britain|British]] crown.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/mckstorymerrell.htm|title=The Merrell Family|publisher=[[Texas A&M University]]|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref> Other family members were pioneers in 1798 in the settlement of [[Mississippi]].​

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Touchstone was a professional researcher and writer and owned and for a time and operated the largest retail book store in Shreveport. He was an avid reader and was known for his extensive vocabulary and for remembering and quoting large portions of published books and poetry. For eight years, he published in his print shop in Bossier City numerous weekly newspapers in Louisiana and [[Texas]], including the former ''Bossier Press'' and the ''Waskom Gazette'' in Waskom, in Harrison County in east Texas.<ref name=obit/>

Touchstone was a professional researcher and writer and owned and for a time and operated the largest retail book store in Shreveport. He was an avid reader and was known for his extensive vocabulary and for remembering and quoting large portions of published books and poetry. For eight years, he published in his print shop in Bossier City numerous weekly newspapers in Louisiana and [[Texas]], including the former ''Bossier Press'' and the ''Waskom Gazette'' in Waskom in Harrison County in east Texas.<ref name=obit/>

==Administrative assistant on Capitol Hill==

==Administrative assistant on Capitol Hill==