Barbara Heck

RUCKLE, BARBARA (Heck) b. Bastian Ruckle got married Margaret Embury in Ballingrane, Republic of Ireland. The couple had seven children, of which only four lived to adulthood.

The subject of the biography typically an individual who has had a key role in things that have left an impact on the society, or who has come up with unique ideas and proposals, which are documented in some manner. Barbara Heck however left no notes or letters, and the evidence for such matters in relation to the day of her wedding is not the most important. There are no surviving primary sources from which one can reconstruct her motives and her behavior throughout her lifetime. In spite of this she was a cult figure at the dawn of Methodism. The biographer's job is to identify and account for the myth and if possible to describe the actual person featured in it.

Abel Stevens a Methodist Historian wrote about this event in 1866. The progress of Methodism within the United States has now indisputably made the modest name of Barbara Heck first on the list of women who have a place in the history of the church of the New World. Her record is based more on the importance of the cause that she is involved in than on her personal life. Barbara Heck had a fortuitous part in establishing Methodism within The United States of America and Canada. Her reputation stems from the fundamental characteristic that any successful organization or group must exaggerate the roots of its movement to strengthen the sense of history.