Barbara Heck

BARBARA Ruckle (Heck). Bastian Ruckle married Margaret Embury in Ballingrane, Republic of Ireland. The couple had seven children, of which only four lived into adulthood.

Most of the time subjects have participated in significant events, and expressed unique thoughts or ideas that are recorded on paper. Barbara Heck, on the contrary, did not leave notes or written documents. Evidence of such items as her date of marriage, is only secondary. There is no evidence of primary sources through which one could reconstruct her motivations or her behavior throughout her existence. However, she has become an iconic figure in the early years of North American Methodism theology. In this instance the biographer's task is to define and account for the myth and if possible to describe the person who is enshrined within it.

Abel Stevens a Methodist Historian recorded the event in 1866. Barbara Heck's humble name is now indisputablely first in the list of women who made a significant contribution to the life of the church throughout New World history. This has been because of the rise of Methodism in America. United States. Her accomplishments are based more on the significance of the cause that she was associated with than her private life. Barbara Heck had a fortuitous contribution to the development of Methodism in The United States of America and Canada. Her name is based on the natural nature of any group or institution has to magnify the origins of their movement in order increase the sense of tradition.