Barbara Heck

Ruckle, Barbara (Heck) b. Bastian Ruckle the daughter of Margaret Embury and Bastian Ruckle was born in Ballingrane in 1734. She was married to Paul Heck 1760 in Ireland. They had 7 kids from which four survived into childhood.

In general, the person who is featured in the biography is an active participant in important events or has enunciated distinctive ideas or proposals which are documented in document form. Barbara Heck, on the other hand, left no writings or statements. The evidence of such things as her date of marriage is only secondary. There are no surviving original sources that could reconstruct her motivations or her behavior throughout her lifetime. However, she has become a heroic figure in early North American Methodism theology. Here, the biographer's role is to provide an account of and explanation for the story and explain, if it is possible, the actual person hidden within it.

Abel Stevens was a Methodist scholar who wrote in 1866. The growth of Methodism throughout the United States has now indisputably put the name of Barbara Heck first on the list of women that have been a part of the ecclesiastical story of the New World. Her record is based more on the importance of the cause that she is involved in than on her personal life. Barbara Heck played a lucky contribution to the birth of Methodism, both in North America and Canada. She is famous for her way in which successful groups and organizations are prone to celebrating their origins.