Barbara Heck

RUCKLE, BARBARA (Heck) b. Bastian Ruckle is the daughter of Margaret Embury and Bastian Ruckle was born in Ballingrane in 1734. She got married Paul Heck 1760 in Ireland. The couple had seven children who survived to the age of 4.

Normally the subject of the biography is an active participant in important instances or has presented unique thoughts or suggestions that have been recorded in documentary format. Barbara Heck, on the contrary, did not leave written statements or letters. The evidence of such things as her date of wedding is not the only evidence. In the majority of her adult life it is not possible to find evidence from the primary sources which allow us to reconstruct the motives or actions of her. Despite this, she is considered a hero by the story of Methodism. The job of a biographer is to explain and account for the story and identify if there is a real individual who is hidden in it.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian in 1866, wrote about this. Barbara Heck, a humble woman from her native New World who is credited for the development of Methodism throughout in the United States, has undoubtedly risen to first place in the history of the church in the New World. The magnitude of her record is primarily due to the creation of her most important name, derived from the history of the great causes with which her legacy remains forever etched from the history of her lives. Barbara Heck played a lucky part in the founding of Methodism as it was conceived in both the United States and Canada. Her name is well-known because of the manner in which winning groups and organizations often celebrate their founding.