Barbara Heck

RUCKLE, BARBARA (Heck) b. Bastian Ruckle is the father of Margaret Embury and Bastian Ruckle was born in Ballingrane in 1734. She married Paul Heck 1760 in Ireland. They had seven children, of whom 4 survived into childhood.

The subject of the biography usually an individual who has had the leading role in important historical moments, or come up with unique ideas or suggestions that have been captured in written form. Barbara Heck, on the contrary, did not leave in writing or written letters. There is no evidence to support such things as her date of marriage, is merely secondary. No primary source exists that could be used to trace Barbara Heck's motives or actions through the majority of her time. However, she is a hero in the early historical background of Methodism in North America. It's the job of the biographer to explain and define the myth that is being told, and also to show the real person in the myth.

The Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably an early woman in the time of New World ecclesiastical women, because of the advancements made by Methodism. Her record is based more upon the importance of the cause that she was linked to rather than her own personal circumstances. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously at the time of the emergence of Methodism in The United States and Canada and her fame is based on the common tendency of an extremely popular movement or institution to celebrate its early days to reinforce its belief in the past and its history.