Barbara Heck

RUCKLE BARBARA (Heck) b. Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian) (Sebastian) and Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland) He was married to Paul Heck (1760) in Ireland. They were blessed with seven children. Of these, four were born.

The subject of an autobiography has been a major participant in significant instances or has presented unique concepts or ideas that have been recorded in documentary form. Barbara Heck however left no messages or documents, in fact the evidence for such matters as the date of her wedding is not the only evidence. There are no surviving primary sources through which one can reconstruct her motives as well as her actions over the span of her time. The woman is regarded as an icon in the history of Methodism. It is the task for the biographers to define and explain the story that is being told, and then to attempt to depict the individual who is included in it.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian, wrote this article in 1866. Barbara Heck's name is considered to be the most important in the ecclesiastical histories of New World because of the growing popularity of Methodism. Her record is based more upon the importance of the cause that she has been connected to than the personal life. Barbara Heck's role in the beginning of Methodism was a fortunate coincidence. Her popularity is due her involvement in the beginning of Methodism because it's become a natural habit for extremely popular movements or organizations to praise their origins, in order to keep ties to the old.