Editing David Levy Yulee (section)

==Marriage and family==
[[File:Yulee, Nannie Christian (Healy, 1846).png|thumb|Portrait of Nancy Yulee, ''née'' Wickliffe, by [[George Peter Alexander Healy|Healy]] (1846).]]
In 1846, Levy officially changed his name to David Levy Yulee by an act of the Florida Legislature,<ref name="Federal Writers' Project 1939 348"/> adding his father's [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardic]] surname.<ref name="archive"/>  That year he married Nancy Christian Wickliffe, the daughter of [[Charles A. Wickliffe]], the former [[governor of Kentucky]] and [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General]] under President [[John Tyler]]. His wife was Christian, and they raised their children in her faith.<ref name=jvl/> Levy was a second cousin of U.S. Senator from Louisiana [[Judah P. Benjamin]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monaco |first=C. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uKekCgAAQBAJ&dq=david+levy+yulee+judah+benjamin+cousin&pg=PA185 |title=Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer |date= October 2015|publisher=LSU Press |isbn=978-0-8071-6428-0 |language=en}}</ref>

===Death and legacy===
Selling the Florida Railroad, he retired in 1880 with his wife to [[Washington, D.C.]], where she had a family.<ref name="archive"/> Yulee died on October 10, 1886, at the Clarendon Hotel in New York City.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Death of Mr. Yulee |newspaper=The Weekly Floridian |date=October 14, 1886 |page=2 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-weekly-floridian-death-of-mr-yulee/135338321/ |access-date=2023-11-17 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |language=en}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref>Thomas William Herringshaw, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gRQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA524 ''Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography''], 1914, p. 524</ref><ref>John R. Nemmers, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida, [http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/Yulee.htm ''A Guide to the David Levy Yulee Papers'': Biographical Note], March 2005</ref> Yulee was buried at [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]] in Washington, D.C.<ref name=jvl /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/366e.pdf |title=Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C. (Henry Crescent) - Lots 366 and 367 East |access-date=2022-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023015039/https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/366e.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-23 |url-status=live}}</ref>[[Image:Yulee gravesite funerary memorial.jpg|thumb|Yulee gravesite]][[Image:Yulee-Base inscription funerary memorial.jpg|thumb|Memorial inscription]]

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*Both the town of [[Yulee, Florida]]<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j3NPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3656%2C1357787 | title=Driving through Florida history | work=Ocala Star-Banner | date=Aug 19, 1956 | access-date=8 June 2015 | author=Hunn, Max | pages=29}}</ref> and [[Levy County, Florida]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Publications of the Florida Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA32|year=1908|publisher=Florida Historical Society.|page=32}}</ref> are named for him.
*The town of Fernandina Beach, Florida has a statue of Yulee.<ref name="forwardfeldmanwhyaretherenostatues">{{cite news|last1=Feldman|first1=Ari|title=Why Are There No Statues Of Jewish Confederate Judah Benjamin To Tear Down?|url=http://forward.com/news/380453/why-are-there-no-statues-of-jewish-confederate-judah-benjamin-to-tear-down/|access-date=September 6, 2017|work=Forward|date=August 20, 2017|quote=There is only one known statue of a Jewish Confederate leader. It depicts David Levy Yulee, an industrialist, plantation owner, and Confederate senator from Florida, and it shows him sitting on a bench.}}</ref>
*In 2000, the Florida Department of State designated Levy Yulee as a [[Great Floridians|Great Floridian]] in the ''Great Floridians 2000 Program''. Award plaques in his honor were installed at both the Fernandina Chamber of Commerce and the Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins State Historic Site.<ref name=great />
*The [[World War II]] [[Liberty Ship]] {{SS|David L. Yulee}} was named in his honor.