Barbara Heck

RUCKLE, BARBARA (Heck) b. Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian) along with Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland), married Paul Heck (1760) in Ireland. The couple had seven children, of which four survived childhood.

The subject of the biography usually an individual who has had an important role in major historical moments, or made unique ideas and proposals which have been recorded in written form. Barbara Heck however left no notes or letters, and the evidence for such matters as the date of her marriage is secondary. It's impossible to determine the motivations behind Barbara Heck and her behaviour through her whole life based on the primary sources. Her name is still considered heroized in the tradition of Methodism. It is the task of the biographer to explain the legend that is being told, as well as to present the person who was part of the myth.

Abel Stevens was a Methodist scholar and writer in 1866. Barbara Heck's name is now unquestionably the first one in the ecclesiastical histories of New World because of the growth of Methodism. The reason for this is that it's more upon the importance of the cause that she is linked to rather than her own personal life. Barbara Heck's involvement in the starting of Methodism was a synchronicity that happened to be a lucky one. Her popularity is due because it has developed into a normal practice to have extremely successful groups or organizations to praise their origins, in order to keep ties to the historical past.