Barbara Heck

BARBARA, (Heck), Born 1734 at Ballingrane in the Republic of Ireland. The child of Bastian (Sebastian) Ruckle and Margery Embury. Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian), and Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland) got married to Paul Heck (1760 in Ireland). They had seven kids, and four lived to adulthood.

Typically, the person who is being profiled was either an active participant in an important event or made a unique declaration or suggestion which has been recorded. Barbara Heck did not leave any letters or written statements. The evidence of the day she married was a secondary issue. The main documents used by Heck to describe her motivations and actions were gone. Despite this, she became a legendary figure at the dawn of Methodism. It is a case where the purpose of the biography is to expose the myth or legend and if it is able to be accomplished, to describe the person that was inscribed.

Abel Stevens, Methodist historian from 1866. Barbara Heck, a humble woman from in the New World who is credited for the development of Methodism across all of the United States, has undoubtedly been a leader in the history of the church in the New World. It is due to the fact that the story of Barbara Heck has to be predominantly based upon her contribution to the greater cause to which her life's work is forever linked. Barbara Heck had a fortuitous role in the establishment of Methodism in The United States of America and Canada. Her reputation is based on the natural tendency that any highly successful organization or group must exaggerate the roots of its movements in order to increase the sense of the past.