If you want to search Dixie-Dixey-Dixy, there are a lot of them. The first family landed in Massachusetts. There were many in the 17th century records.The earliest listed is possibly a mis-typing- 1578 (should be 1678?), Elizabeth Dixie, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, who married a Samuel Morgan. There were Dixies all over by the beginning of the 19th century. None seems to have called enough attention to himself to have had his name used for the South.