Barbara Heck

BARBARA (Heck), 1734 in Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland) She was the daughter of Bastian (Sebastian) Ruckle and Margaret Embury m. 1760 Paul Heck in Ireland and they had seven children of whom four survived infancy d. 17 Aug. 1804 in Augusta Township Upper Canada.

The typical biography includes an individual who played an active role in the organization in significant events, or who had a unique statement or suggestions that were documented. Barbara Heck did not leave no written or personal notes. The evidence of the day she married was a secondary issue. There is no evidence of primary sources from which one can trace her motivations and her actions throughout most of her lifetime. But she's become a heroic figure in the early history of Methodism in North America. The biographer has to define the mythology, define the story and identify the individual that is revered in.

It was the Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably one of the pioneer women in the history of New World ecclesiastical women, due to the advances achieved by Methodism. Her record is based more on the significance of the cause she is connected to than the personal life. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously at the time of the emergence of Methodism throughout both the United States and Canada and her fame rests in the natural nature of an extremely successful movement or institution to highlight its early days for the purpose of enhancing the sense of tradition as well as continuity with its past.