My only connection to the PATCH surname is through a g-g-great aunt, Winona Patch, who married a SHATNEY relative. [Winona was Native American/Vermont.]
I'm writing just to say what a wonderful service you have done, Shelley, to get that album into the hands of a genealogical society. Photographs are so precious to those of us who are researching family histories.
Thank you! Jeanne