Barbara Heck

BARBARA RUCKLE (Heck). Bastian Ruckle and Margaret Embury had a daughter named Barbara (Heck) born in 1734. She married in 1760 Paul Heck and together they raised seven children. Four of them survived until adulthood.

A biography usually features an individual who was an important participant of significant events, or who made distinctive statements or ideas that were recorded. Barbara Heck, on the however, has not left writings or statements. Evidence of such details as the date she got married wedding is not the only evidence. There is no evidence of primary sources from which one can trace her motivations and her behavior throughout her lifetime. However, she is a hero in the early time of Methodism in North America. The job of a biographer is to account and explain the story and describe if possible the real individual who is hidden in it.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian wrote this in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably the first woman in the time of New World ecclesiastical women, because of the advancements that was made through Methodism. Her record is based more on the importance of the cause she is involved in than on her personal lives. Barbara Heck played a lucky role in the birth of Methodism, both in North America as well as Canada. She is famous for her way in which successful movements and institutions tend to celebrate their beginnings.