Barbara Heck

BARBARA(Heck) born 1734 in the town of Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland) and daughter of Bastian and Margaret Embury. Bastian Ruckle as well as Margaret Embury had a daughter called Barbara (Heck) born in 1734. In 1760 she married Paul Heck and together they had seven kids. Four of them lived to adulthood.

In most cases subjects have participated in important events and has had unique thoughts or opinions which were recorded in writing. Barbara Heck has left no documents or letters. Her marriage date as an example is unsupported by evidence. There is no evidence of original sources that can reconstruct her motives and her actions throughout most of her existence. But she is heroized in the beginning of North American Methodism theology. In this instance the biographer's mission is to determine and account for the myth and if possible to describe the person who is enshrined within it.

It was the Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. The growth of Methodism within the United States has now indisputably placed the humble Barbara Heck's name Barbara Heck first on the women's list who have a place in the history of the church of the New World. Her record must chiefly consist of the naming of her precious name made from the story of the major causes with which her legacy remains forever etched through the events of her personal life. Barbara Heck, who was not in the least involved in the beginning of Methodism both in the United States and Canada She is one of those women whose fame stems from the tendency of a successful organization or movement to celebrate the roots of its founding to enhance the sense of permanence and continuity.