Barbara Heck

RUCKLE BARBARA (Heck) b. 1734 Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland), daughter of Bastian (Sebastian) Ruckle and Margaret Embury m. 1760 Paul Heck in Ireland and they had seven children out of which four survived into childhood and died. 17 August. 1804 in Augusta Township Upper Canada.

Normaly, the person that is the subject of this investigation has either been an important person in a noteworthy incident or presented a distinctive statement or proposal that has been documented. Barbara Heck, on the contrary, did not leave in writing or written letters. The evidence of such items as her date of marriage is simply secondary. There aren't any primary sources from which one can reconstruct her motives as well as her actions throughout most of her lifetime. Her name is still considered a hero in the history of Methodism. It's the job of a biographer to describe and explain the story in this case, and also to show the individual who is included in the myth.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian, wrote this article in 1866. The growth of Methodism within the United States has now indisputably established the modest names of Barbara Heck first on the lists of women's roles in the history of the church in the New World. Her reputation is more based on the weight of the cause that she has been associated with than her personal circumstances. Barbara Heck, who was fortuitously involved in the founding of Methodism both in the United States and Canada, is a woman who's fame is due to the tendency that a successful institution or movement would be able to celebrate their founding to increase its perception of continuity and history.