Barbara Heck

RUCKLE, BARBARA (Heck) b. Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian) (Sebastian) and Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland) who married Paul Heck (1760) in Ireland. The couple had seven kids, and four lived to adulthood.

The person that is the subject of this investigation is either a key part of a major occasion or has made an extraordinary announcement or proposition that was recorded. Barbara Heck however left no documents or correspondence, so they are not evidence as the date of her marriage has no significance. No primary source exists that could be used to trace Barbara Heck's motives and actions in her entire life. The woman is regarded as an icon in the history of Methodism. It's the responsibility of the biographer to explain and delineate the mythology in this case, as well as to present the real person in it.

The Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck's humble title is now indisputablely first in the ecclesiastical history of the New World because of the expansion of Methodism. Her record must chiefly consist of the setting of her precious Name based on the history of the cause whom her name is distinguished more than from the story of her own lives. Barbara Heck, who was fortunate to be involved in the creation of Methodism both in America and Canada, is a woman famous for her belief that any successful organization or movement would be able to celebrate their beginnings to reinforce its sense of continuity and heritage.