Barbara Heck

RUCKLE, BARBARA (Heck) b. Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian) and Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland) was married Paul Heck (1760 in Ireland). They had seven children of which four lived to adulthood.

The subject of the biography typically a person who has played an important role in the things that have left an impact on the society or had innovative ideas or proposals which are subsequently documented in some method. Barbara Heck however left no notes or letters, and any evidence of such since the day of her wedding is not the most important. It's impossible to determine the motivations behind Barbara Heck and her behavior through her whole life, based on the primary sources. It is still an important figure for the beginning of Methodism. Biographers must establish the mythology, define the meaning and then describe the person whom is honored within.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian in 1866, wrote about this. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably one of the pioneer women in the time of New World ecclesiastical women, due to the advances made by Methodism. The magnitude of 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 will be forever linked more in the story of her personal lives. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously at the time of the emergence of Methodism throughout the United States and Canada and her reputation is built in the natural characteristic of a very effective organization or group to celebrate its origins so that it can strengthen its sense of tradition and continuity with its past.