Barbara Heck

BARBARA RUCKLE (Heck). Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian), as well Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland) married Paul Heck (1760 in Ireland). They had seven children, of which four were born in childhood.

Normally the subject of a biography has been a major participant in significant events or has enunciated distinctive ideas or proposals which have been recorded in documentary form. Barbara Heck however left no letters or statements indeed there is no evidence to support such claims as the date of her marriage is not the most important. The main documents used by Heck to explain her motives and actions are gone. It is still an crucial figure in the early days of Methodism. In this case, the job of the biographer is to explain and account for the story and explain, if it is possible, the actual individual who is hidden in the myth.

Abel Stevens a Methodist Historian wrote about this event in 1866. Barbara Heck has taken the first place on the New World's list of ecclesiastical leaders due to the rise of Methodism. In order to understand the significance of her name, it is important that you take a look at the extensive background of the Movement with which she will always be associated. Barbara Heck had a fortuitous part in establishing Methodism within the United States of America and Canada. Her fame stems from the fundamental characteristic that any successful organisation or organization must magnify the origins of their movement in order increase the sense of history.