After moving to Radium, Minnesota to work with his cousin Moses Henry Tatro, Lynn started a courtship with Grace Elizabeth Attix, the young school teacher boarding at the Tatro home. “by the end of the school term Grace was signing herself “Lovingly Grace” when she wrote back to Lynn at Radium to look after the books she had left behind. (These books were probably the set of encyclopedia that was bought for Grace by her Grandfather Octavo Barker and remained in the family to educate Grace’s many offspring.)
Grace’s school term must have ended in mid-June for she was back with her Grandpa Barker in Argyle by June 18th, that year of 1914. A week later she was visiting her mother, Susie, who had married David Strachan and lived at his homestead in the Roecliffe District east of North Battleford in Saskatchewan. Grace’s family were not at all pleased with her attraction to an older man (she was 22 and Lynn nearly 28) a widower with a five-year-old son to rear. While in Saskatchewan she was encouraged to meet several would-be swains but to no avail. She hurried back to be with Lynn.
Lynn went to work in Grand Forks, North Dakota that fall and Grace went to teach at Northland School to be near him. On the 6th of February, 1915, Mr. Henry Lynn Tatro and Miss Grace Elizabeth Attix were married in accordance with the laws of the State of North Dakota at Grand Forks, by Reverend Wm. H. Elfeing, witnessed by the Reverend’s wife and a Mr. O. E. Myers. In spite of her advanced pregnancy, Grace completed her term at Northland School and then the couple moved to Lynn’s parents home. There Vern was united with his father once again and was to become part of the family of his new stepmother. And there, at Thad Tatro’s, Gladys Adelia was born on July 21st, 1915.”*
* “The Tatros of North America” / Harry A Tatro, p. 63