The Great Kanawha River derives its name from a small tribe of Indians which lived there over the mountain highlands of VIrginia and were the same people as the Nanticokes of the Algonqin Lenni Lenape Delaware indians. There name has been spelled many different ways from Conhaways to Kanhawas. Thirteen Lenni-Lenape came into the camp of James Mason and Jeremiah Dixon who between 1763 and 1767 surveyed the boundaries between Maryland, Pennsylvania and the Delaware. . Mason said "one was the tallest man I ever saw." He was the nephew of a Lenni-Lenape called Captain Black Jacobs. The Lenni-Lenapes moved to Delaware and Maryland by 1750. Sidney Dixon's grandmother Ann Rebecca Dixon married Tom Dixon but it is unconfirmed. Although she was already a Dixon, she married a Dixon so all the children had the name of Dixon. She married Jacob Studebaker in 1871 and had another son. She was a Kanawha Indian and Sidney named the bar he purchased in the 1930's after her. She was over 6 feet tall. There are no known Kanawha Indian's left and a small population of 1200 Delaware Indian's left.
On the 1900 US Census, she is shown living with her son, Albert Sidney, in Urbana, MD. She is listed as SUSAN Studebaker, widow, mistakenly designated as "mother-in-law".
NOTE: She is buried with her grandson, Calvin Sylvester Dixon.
NOTE: Reinterred at Monocacy Cemetery on Sept. 18, 1935 from Pooles Tract, Dickerson. In this grave are 3 Dixon family members; Calvin Sylvester Dixon, Ann Rebecca Dixon Studebaker, and Simon Dixon. All had been buried at the Mt. Pleasant M.E. Church Cemetery on the Pooles Tract Cemetery outside of Dickerson, Md. They where buried next to the road and the soil had eroded, leaving the caskets exposed. The remains were exhumed and brought to Monocacy Cemetery.
