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Touchstone's mother, Carrie Moore Touchstone (1906-1982), is interred at Old Town Cemetery in Haynesville in Claiborne Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Touchstone&GSfn=Carrie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=15890296&df=all&|title=Carrie Lee Moore Touchstone|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref> ​His father, Sam F. Touchstone (1904-2002), a native of Clarke County, Mississippi, was a [[Taxidermy|taxidermist]] and inventor in Bossier City. He was affiliated with a half-dozen [[Baptist]] churches during his sixty-seven years as a professing [[Christianity|Christian]]. Like his son Ned, he is interred at Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Touchstone&GSfn=Sam&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=99633398&df=all&|title=Sam F. Touchstone|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref>​

Touchstone's mother, Carrie Moore Touchstone (1906-1982), is interred at Old Town Cemetery in Haynesville in Claiborne Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Touchstone&GSfn=Carrie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=15890296&df=all&|title=Carrie Lee Moore Touchstone|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref> ​His father, Sam F. Touchstone (1904-2002), a native of Clarke County, Mississippi, was a [[Taxidermy|taxidermist]] and inventor in Bossier City. He was affiliated with a half-dozen [[Baptist]] churches during his sixty-seven years as a professing [[Christianity|Christian]]. Like his son Ned, he is interred at Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Touchstone&GSfn=Sam&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=99633398&df=all&|title=Sam F. Touchstone|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=March 24, 2017}}</ref>​

Touchstone was married to the former June A. McGahee (April 19, 1927 &ndash; December 22, 2019), the youngest of three children of Carlton McGahee, Sr., and the former Ora Bray, who died as June was being born. A native of Homer in Claiborne Parish, she was an honor graduate of Homer High School and became a scholar of etymology and the classics. She was a former news editor of ''The Waskom Gazette'' and proofread the numerous published writings of her husband, Ned. She spent her later years in Shreveport and was a Republican and a supporter of [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]].<ref name=juneobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=june-touchstone&pid=194814179|title=June Touchstone|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 24, 2019}}</ref>

Touchstone was married to the former June A. McGahee (April 19, 1927 &ndash; December 22, 2019), the youngest of three children of Carlton McGahee, Sr., and the former Ora Bray, who died as June was being born. A native of Homer in Claiborne Parish, she was an honor graduate of Homer High School and became a scholar of etymology and the classics. She was a former news editor of ''The Waskom Gazette'' and proofread the numerous published writings of her husband, Ned. She spent her later years in Shreveport and was a Republican supporter of [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]].<ref name=juneobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=june-touchstone&pid=194814179|title=June Touchstone|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 24, 2019}}</ref>

The Touchstones had a surviving son, David Mark Touchstone (born September 23, 1952), a business [[attorney]] in Shreveport-Bossier City and also a Republican;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/david-touchstone/e826621971708|title=David Touchstone|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=August 26, 2019}}</ref> two daughters, Lauren Touchstone Webb (born April 23, 1948) of Shreveport, and Lia Touchstone Evans (born 1955) of Rockwall, Texas.<ref name=obit/>​,

The Touchstones had a surviving son, David Mark Touchstone (born September 23, 1952), a business [[attorney]] in Shreveport-Bossier City and also a Republican;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/david-touchstone/e826621971708|title=David Touchstone|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=August 26, 2019}}</ref> two daughters, Lauren Touchstone Webb (born April 23, 1948) of Shreveport, and Lia Touchstone Evans (born 1955) of Rockwall, Texas.<ref name=juneobit/>,

From 1981 until his death two decades later, Sam Touchstone operated the Touchstone Wildlife & Art Museum on U.S. Highway 80 in Haughton. The facility showcases taxidermist exhibits on two floors from floor to ceiling with specimens of animals from all over the world. After Sam Touchstone's death, his second wife, Lura Patrick Touchstone (born September 1931), of Bossier City and her daughter, Samantha Olson, continued to operate and expand the museum. The facility also contains artifacts of [[Native Americans]]  and a section on the notorious outlaws [[Bonnie and Clyde]], who rampaged through [north Louisiana to their deaths in 1934. In March 2017, Mrs. Touchstone, announced that the museum has fallen on difficult economic times with declining attendance, and the future of the facility remained doubtful. She noted that many schools no longer send children to the wildlife museum on field trips though the facility had been very popular with young people in the past.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/haughton-museum-faces-closure/|title=Haughton museum faces closure|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|author=Amanda Simmons|accessdate=March 25, 2017}}</ref>​ As of the summer of 2019, the museum, which is rated highly among its patrons, was still operational.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/touchstonemuseum/|title=Touchstone Wildlife & Art Museum|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref>

From 1981 until his death two decades later, Sam Touchstone operated the Touchstone Wildlife & Art Museum on U.S. Highway 80 in Haughton. The facility showcases taxidermist exhibits on two floors from floor to ceiling with specimens of animals from all over the world. After Sam Touchstone's death, his second wife, Lura Patrick Touchstone (born September 1931), of Bossier City and her daughter, Samantha Olson, continued to operate and expand the museum. The facility also contains artifacts of [[Native Americans]]  and a section on the notorious outlaws [[Bonnie and Clyde]], who rampaged through [north Louisiana to their deaths in 1934. In March 2017, Mrs. Touchstone, announced that the museum has fallen on difficult economic times with declining attendance, and the future of the facility remained doubtful. She noted that many schools no longer send children to the wildlife museum on field trips though the facility had been very popular with young people in the past.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/haughton-museum-faces-closure/|title=Haughton museum faces closure|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|author=Amanda Simmons|accessdate=March 25, 2017}}</ref>​ As of the summer of 2019, the museum, which is rated highly among its patrons, was still operational.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/touchstonemuseum/|title=Touchstone Wildlife & Art Museum|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref>