Barbara Heck

BARBARA, (Heck), Born 1734 in Ballingrane, Republic of Ireland. The child of Bastian (Sebastian) Ruckle and Margery Embury. Bastian Ruckle is the son of Margaret Embury and Bastian Ruckle was born in Ballingrane in 1734. She married Paul Heck 1760 in Ireland. The couple had seven children from which four survived into childhood.

A biography usually features an individual who played an active role in the organization of significant events, or who had a unique statement or ideas that were recorded. Barbara Heck, on the contrary, did not leave writings or statements. Evidence of such items as her date of wedding is not the only evidence. The main documents used by Heck to explain the reasons behind her actions and motives are not available. She is still a very important figure for the beginning of Methodism. The job of a biographer is to provide an account of and explanation for the legend and identify if there is a real person hidden within it.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian in 1866, wrote about this. Barbara Heck, a humble woman of the New World who is credited for the development of Methodism throughout all of the United States, has undoubtedly made it to the top of ecclesiastical histories of New World. Her accomplishments will be largely due to the naming of her important name, derived from the past of the famous reason for which her name remains forever etched through the events of her personal life. Barbara Heck had a fortuitous part in establishing Methodism within the United States of America and Canada. Her fame stems from the fundamental nature of any group or institution has to exaggerate the roots of their movement in order enhance the feeling of history.