Barbara Heck

BARBARA (Heck), Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian) and Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland) married Paul Heck (1760 in Ireland). The couple had seven children, of which four survived childhood.

In general, the person who is featured in a biography has been a major participant in significant events or has enunciated distinctive ideas or proposals which were recorded in a documentary format. Barbara Heck, on the however, has not left notes or written documents. The proof of things as her date of wedding is not the only evidence. The primary documents that were utilized by Heck in order to justify her motives and actions are lost. In spite of this she was a cult figure in the beginning of Methodism. The job of a biographer is to explain and account for the story and describe if possible the real person hidden within the myth.

Abel Stevens, Methodist historian of 1866. Barbara Heck, a humble woman of in the New World who is credited with the advancement of Methodism throughout in the United States, has undoubtedly made it to the top of the history of the church in the New World. The magnitude of her record must chiefly consist of the creation of her most precious name made from the past of the famous cause with which her memory will be forever linked more through the events of her own life. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously at the time of the emergence of Methodism in the United States and Canada and her fame is based on the inherent characteristic of a very effective organization or group to highlight its early days in order to strengthen its traditionalism and continuity with its past.