Edith Simar, married Elias Uptagrafft, about 1890, they raised a family on what was known as the Simar Homestead, in Jewell County Kansas, first homesteaded by John Simar, in / or about 1871.

Burton John Simar, a son of the homesteader, and the first child born on the homestead, -- married Abbie Jane Uptagrafft, a daughter of John Uptagrafft, in 1907, so all next generation descendants of these two families, are double cousins.