Barbara Heck

BARBARA(Heck) born 1734 in Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland), daughter of Bastian and Margaret Embury. 1734, in Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland), 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.

In general, the person who is featured in an autobiography has been an active participant in important instances or has presented unique thoughts or suggestions that have been recorded in documentary form. Barbara Heck left neither letters and statement. In fact, the sole evidence regarding the date of the marriage from secondary sources. No primary source exists that can be utilized to determine Barbara Heck's motives, or her actions during most of her life. Nevertheless she has become an hero in the early history of Methodism in North America. The biographer's mission is to determine and justify the myth and, if feasible, describe the real person enshrined in the myth.

Abel Stevens was a Methodist scholar who wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably the first woman in the history of New World ecclesiastical women, because of the advancements that was made through Methodism. Her accomplishments will be largely due to the naming of her valuable name based on the past of the famous causes with which her legacy remains forever etched in the story of her lives. Barbara Heck's involvement with the early days of Methodism was a fortunate coincidence. Her fame is due to the fact that a very effective organization or movement can honor their past in order to keep ties with the past and to be rooted to it.