Barbara Heck

BARBARA RUCKLE (Heck). Bastian Ruckle was married to Margaret Embury in Ballingrane, Republic of Ireland. The couple had seven kids from which just four survived to adulthood.

In general, the person who is featured in an autobiography has been as a key participant in major events or has enunciated distinctive concepts or ideas that were recorded in a documentary form. Barbara Heck however left no documents or correspondence, so there is no evidence to support such claims as the day of her wedding is not the most important. It is impossible to reconstruct the motives of Barbara Heck's actions throughout her entire life from primary sources. In spite of this she was a cult figure in the beginning of Methodism. The biographical mission is to determine and justify the myth and if possible to describe the person who is enshrined within it.

Abel Stevens was a Methodist scholar, who published his work in 1866. Barbara Heck has taken the top spot in the New World's ecclesiastical list in the wake of Methodism. Her reputation is more based on the importance of the cause that she was associated with than her personal lives. Barbara Heck, who was without intention a part of the founding of Methodism both in the United States and Canada She is one of those women who is famous because of the tendency of a successful organization or movement to celebrate the roots of its founding to enhance the sense of the continuity and history.