Ned O'Neal Touchstone (September 27, 1926 – July 26, 1988) was a newspaper publisher who was a figure in the "Radical Right" in Louisiana politics during the 1960s. He was born in the village of Florien in Sabine Parish but resided in the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area for most of his life.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 hanged, drawn, and quartered in North Carolina in an early attack on the British crown. Other family members were pioneers in 1798 in the settlement of Mississippi. ...more on Wikipedia