Barbara Heck

BARBARA RUCKLE (Heck). Bastian Ruckle married Margaret Embury in Ballingrane, Republic of Ireland. The couple had seven children, of which only four lived until adulthood.

The subject of a biography has been as a key participant in major events or has enunciated distinctive concepts or ideas that were recorded in a documentary format. Barbara Heck has left no correspondence or documents. The date of her marriage, for example, is unsupported by evidence. There is no evidence of primary sources through which one can reconstruct her motives and her actions throughout most of her existence. She is still a very crucial figure in the early days of Methodism. Here, the biographer's role is to account and explain the myth as well as explain, if it is possible, the actual person who lies within it.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian in 1866, wrote about this. The development of Methodism in the United States has now indisputably placed the humble name of Barbara Heck first on the listing of women who have been included who have a place in the history of the church of the New World. This is because the record of Barbara Heck must be mostly based on her contributions to the greater cause to which her life's work will forever be linked. Barbara Heck's role with the early days of Methodism was a synchronicity that happened to be a lucky one. Her fame is due to the fact that a successful organization or movement will honor their past in order to maintain ties with the past and be rooted to it.