Barbara Heck

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

Normaly, the person being investigated is either a key participant in a significant event or made a unique statement or proposal that was documented. Barbara Heck however left no documents or correspondence, so any evidence of such in relation to the day of her wedding is not the most important. There is no primary source that could be used to trace Barbara Heck's motives, or her actions during most of her life. However, she has become an iconic figure in the early years of North American Methodism historical. It's the job of the biographer to describe the legend that she has created in this instance, as well as to present the real person who was enshrined in.

Abel Stevens a Methodist Historian wrote about this event in 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 risen to first place in ecclesiastical histories of New World. It is important to look at the enormity of Barbara Heck's record in relation to the legacy she left for her groundbreaking cause than to consider the narrative of her life. Barbara Heck, who was without intention a part of the founding of Methodism as well as in Canada she is one of the women who is famous because of the tendency for a successful organisation or movement to praise its origins to reinforce its belief in permanence and continuity.