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Amazingly enough, assuming that your source of Cynthia's maiden name is reliable, I think you may be researching a previously undocumented child of Rowland Tankersley and Margaret Davidson, who had settled in Lauderdale County by 1827.
The children I've been able to document for this couple so far were Sarah (born c.1810, married Alphis Parker and Thomas H. Franklin), Polly (married Ransom Rayburn in 1829), John (born c.1816 according to most records, married Nancy), Harriett Elizabeth (born c.1822, m. John Harrell), and Richard (born c.1828, m. Mahulda). If you'll look at the 1840 census of Lauderdale County, you'll discover that there's a female in the household of M. Tankesley who's the right age to be your Cynthia. I've been assuming that this was John's wife, since his eldest child was born c.1841 and his family was living in his mother's household in 1850, but it could also have been Cynthia (unless, of course, she was already married by 1840.) The enumeration of John Tankersley as an uncle in her son Francis Reed's household in 1880 seems to me to clinch the relationship.
If this sounds right to you, let me know and I'll be glad to share what I've got. I'm (slowly, slowly) working on an updated family history, and I'd be delighted to add Cynthia's family record to the manuscript.
Harriet
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