That was the way the laws went back then.
I don’t believe her mother was married to him when she was born. They can’t find a birth certificate for her with that name. She was born in Buffalo, New York. My mother was born in Picton, Ontario, Canada in 1920. Her parents were married at the time (marriage certificate verifies), but divorced or split (no official paperwork found on that) when she was very small, and she never knew her father. My mother was never able to get a birth certificate from Canada. They could find no record of her birth. And I’ve never been able to locate a death date or place of burial for my grandfather...my mother’s father. He’s was supposed to be a logger, and at one time lived in Tweed, Canada. I wrote Ottawa to see if they had military papers on him, but they didn’t. I found him as a young boy on the Canadian 1890 census, but after the record of his marriage to my grandmother, he disappeared. I never knew any of my grandparents. They were all gone before I was born in 1947.