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Sources
"Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2D7-DFS : 10 February 2018), Asa Myers and Francis Or Frankey Fortenbury, 22 Feb 1822; citing Lawrence,Mississippi; FHL microfilm 905,518.
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LF-14Z : 12 April 2016), Frances Myers in household of Asa Myers, Scott county, Scott, Mississippi, United States; citing family 355, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 04 August 2019), memorial page for Frances Fortenberry Myers (1805–1861), Find A Grave Memorial no. 48219263, citing Myers Cemetery, Shivers, Simpson County, Mississippi, USA ; Maintained by Margaret Davis (contributor 48622290) .Find A Grave: Memorial #48219263
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Frances by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Frances: