Barbara Heck

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

Most of the time, the subject has participated in important events and has shared unique ideas or thoughts which are documented in writing. Barbara Heck has left no correspondence or documents. Her marriage date as an example is not supported by any proof. It's impossible to determine the motivations behind Barbara Heck and her behavior throughout her life from original sources. But she is heroized in the beginning of North American Methodism history. The biographical mission is to determine the myth and explain it and if possible to describe the actual person featured in it.

Abel Stevens, Methodist historian from 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably the first woman in the time of New World ecclesiastical women, thanks to the progress achieved by Methodism. It is important to consider the magnitude of her accomplishments as it relates to the legacy she left for her great cause than the story of her life. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously with the beginning of Methodism throughout Canada and the United States and Canada and her fame rests in the natural characteristic of a very effective organization or group to glorify its beginnings in order to strengthen the sense of tradition as well as the continuity of its history.