Barbara Heck

Ruckle, Barbara (Heck) b. Bastian Ruckle as well as Margaret Embury had a daughter named Barbara (Heck) born in 1734. She married in 1760 Paul Heck and together they had seven kids. Four of them survived into adulthood.

The person who is being profiled has either been an important participant in an important event or made a unique statement or proposal that has been documented. Barbara Heck has left no documents or letters. Her date of marriage, for example, is unsupported by evidence. It is impossible to reconstruct the motivations behind Barbara Heck's actions through her whole life, based on primary sources. But she's become a heroic figure in the early time of Methodism in North America. The biographer's job is to identify and account for the myth and if possible to describe the person who is enshrined within it.

Abel Stevens was a Methodist scholar who wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck's name has now been firmly placed top of the listing of women who have made a significant contribution to the life of the church throughout New World history. This was caused by the expansion of Methodism in and around the United States. Her record will be largely due to the naming of her important name, derived from the history of the great reason for which her name remains forever etched through the events of her lives. Barbara Heck's participation in the beginning of Methodism was an incredibly fortunate coincidence. Her fame is due to her involvement in a popular organization or group will honor their past in order to keep ties with the past and feel rooted in it.