Barbara Heck

BARBARA Ruckle (Heck). Bastian Ruckle was married to Margaret Embury in Ballingrane, Republic of Ireland. The couple had seven children, from which just four survived to adulthood.

The person who is being profiled has either been an important participant in a significant event or made a unique declaration or suggestion that was documented. Barbara Heck did not leave any letters or written statements. In fact, the evidence for the day she married was secondary. The lack of a primary source can be used to reconstruct Barbara Heck's motives and actions during most of her life. But she's become a hero in the early period of Methodism in North America. In this case, the job of the biographer is to account and explain the myth as well as describe if possible the real person hidden within it.

A report by the Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck has taken the first place on the New World's ecclesiastical list in the wake of Methodism. Her record must chiefly consist of the creation of her most valuable name based on the past of the famous cause with which her memory is forever identified more than through the events of her own lives. Barbara Heck's involvement in the beginning of Methodism was a synchronicity that happened to be a lucky one. Her fame is due to the fact that a very popular organization or group will glorify their origins, in order to maintain ties with the past and to remain rooted.