Barbara Heck

BARBARA (Heck), Bastian Ruckle and Margaret Embury had a daughter named Barbara (Heck), born 1734. In 1760 she married Paul Heck and together they raised seven kids. Four survived until adulthood.

Normally the subject of the biography is a major participant in significant events or has enunciated distinctive concepts or ideas that have been recorded in documentary form. Barbara Heck did not leave writings or letters. Even the proof of the day she married was a secondary issue. The primary documents that were used by Heck to explain the reasons behind her actions and motives were gone. Her legacy is an significant figure at the start of Methodism. The job of a biographer is to explain and account for the myth as well as identify if there is a real person who lies within it.

Abel Stevens was a Methodist scholar and writer in 1866. Barbara Heck, a humble woman of her native New World who is credited with the growth of Methodism throughout the United States, has undoubtedly been a leader in ecclesiastical histories of New World. It is important to look at the enormity of Barbara Heck's accomplishments in relation to the legacy of her groundbreaking cause than to consider the story of her life. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously at the time of the emergence of Methodism in both the United States and Canada and her fame rests on the inherent tendency of a highly popular organization or movement to highlight its early days for the purpose of enhancing the sense of tradition as well as connection to its past.