Barbara Heck

BARBARA Ruckle (Heck). Bastian Ruckle and Margaret Embury had a daughter named Barbara (Heck), born 1734. In 1760 she married Paul Heck and together they have seven children. Four of them lived to adulthood.

The majority of times, the subject has participated in significant events, and shared unique ideas or thoughts which are documented in writing. Barbara Heck did not leave writings or letters. The evidence of the date her marriage was secondary. The documents which were utilized by Heck in order to justify her motives and actions were not available. Nevertheless she has become an heroic figure in the early period of Methodism in North America. This is an example where the job of a biography is to debunk the legend or myth and, if it can be achieved, identify the person that was inscribed.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian in 1866, wrote about this. The growth of Methodism throughout the United States has now indisputably placed the humble name of Barbara Heck first on the women's list in the ecclesiastical history of the New World. This is because the record of Barbara Heck must be predominantly based upon her contribution to the greater cause to which her life's work is forever linked. Barbara Heck, who was without intention a part of the founding of Methodism both in America and Canada, is a woman known for her fame due to the trend for an organisation or movement to praise its roots to strengthen its sense of the continuity and history.