Barbara Heck

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

The subject of the biography is usually a person who has played significant roles in a number of events that have had lasting effects on society or had unique ideas and proposals, that are recorded in a certain manner. Barbara Heck left neither letters or statements. Actually, the only evidence we have concerning the time of the marriage from second-hand sources. There is no evidence of primary sources from which one could reconstruct her motivations or her behavior throughout her existence. But she's become a iconic figure within the first time of Methodism in North America. It's the responsibility of the biographer to explain and define the myth of this particular case as well as to present the actual person enshrined therein.

It was the Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably the first woman to be included in the history of New World ecclesiastical women, because of the advancements made by Methodism. It is due to the fact that the story of Barbara Heck is mostly based on her contributions to the cause with which her legacy remains forever connected. Barbara Heck's participation with the early days of Methodism was a synchronicity that happened to be a lucky one. Her popularity is due to the fact that a very effective organization or movement can celebrate their roots in order to maintain ties to the past and feel rooted in it.