Does Mary Ann Underwood (1826-1849) really exist?

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Mary Ann Underwood (1826-1849) is listed as a daughter of Obed/Obediah Underwood and Mary Myers Underwood in multiple family trees on ancestry.com.  I can find no source documentation to support this parent/child relationship.  The book "Antecedents and Descendents of Levi Underwood (1831-1885) and Related Families" by Dale C. Kellogg does not list her name as among the children of Obed and Mary Underwood.  Can anyone help place her or provide appropriate documentation?
WikiTree profile: Mary Underwood
in Genealogy Help by Lindy Stuart G2G3 (3.4k points)
I found this on Family Search - LC56-S6f-Mary Ann Underwood, birth 1829 Ohio, Death, 1849 Ohio, Parents: Obediah Underwood, Jr., LZP8-189 and Mary Myers, KJHM-JHX., Husband, Rudolph Rine, 9SQB-4FW.  So it seems she does exist.
I just looked at the profile on FamilySearch.  There isn't sufficient information there to tell me that this Mary Ann Underwood is the daughter of Obediah Underwood and Mary Myers.  All the source documentation provides is that there was a Mary Ann Underwood who married Randolph/Rudolph Rines.  Nowhere in any of the source documentation does it tell who her parents were.  I will continue to search for information.  Maybe some of the Quaker records will record her birth.

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Yes, she existed

Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993

Name: Mary Ann Underwood
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 23 Nov 1843
Marriage Place: Knox, Ohio, USA
Spouse: Randolph Rine
Film Number: 001294304
Household Members:
Name Age
Randolph Rine
Mary Ann Underwood
Source Information:
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Ancestry.com. Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
Original Data: Marriage Records. . Ohio Marriages. Various Ohio County Courthouses.
by Eddie King G2G6 Pilot (698k points)
selected by Susan Smith

thank you Miss Susan

I didn't do other sources because I be bizzzzy tormenting Robin Lee devil

I'm still not sure about this one.  I found this same marriage record, with the names of Mary Ann Underwood and Randolph Rine.  I saw a copy of the original marriage record that was handwritten, and there were no annotations of parents.  Other trees give the husband the name of Rudolph, which could be an alternate spelling of the name.  But, I have found no other indication that this Mary Ann Underwood belongs to Obed Underwood and Mary Myers.  I've checked census records and still come up empty.  Granted, the records only give number of children in a set age group, but she still doesn't show up, when you consider that there is another daughter born in 1828/29, who died young.  There should be two girls in the same category if you count both of them.  I haven't found out when the other daughter died, so I don't know which census records she might appear in.  This is just so confusing to me.  It seems like every record I find for Mary Ann Underwood cites the same marriage record, but with no other documentation.  I keep coming back to the fact that the Underwood genealogy by Mr. Kellog does not list her as a child of Obed and Mary.  Plus, there were a lot of Underwoods in the area at the time, so this Mary Ann Underwood could belong to an entirely different family.
I just found her in Family Search, and her father was Obediah Underwood, Jr., married to Mary Meyers.  She was married to Rudolph Rine according to their records.  I gave all the detailed information on her.

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