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Marian and Elwyn Clemmons moved with their two children to St. Paul, Minnesota in the late 1930s. Elwyn, a teacher by training, soon found employment with the Boy scouts of America. That job eventually took them to Philmont Scout Ranch, where they took up residence at the Lower Heck house on Cimmaroncito Creek. Mathias Heck started a ranch along the creek in 18761. The main Heck homestead (Upper Heck) was farther upstream. It is unclear whether Lower Heck was built by the Heck family, or later when the land passed, via Waite Phillips of Phillip's Petroleum, into the hands of the Boy Scouts. The house was in disrepair when Marian and Elwyn arrived in the 1950s and thought to be haunted according to the crew hired to fix up the place. The mysterious noises turned out to be a racoon.
Notes
1. Lawrence R. Murphy, Philmont: A History of New Mexico's Cimarron County, 1972, p.142.