Eberhardt Ludwig Vollmer

Eberhard Ludwig Vollmer was born 6 August 1697, Unterhausen, Germany, son of Eberhard Volma (Miller) and Catharina Zanger. He married 29 November 1719 (as first wife) Catherine Schielin (Shealy), born 7 February 1697, died 1728, daughter of Michael Schülin and Christina Bader. On 23 November 1729 Eberhard Vollmer was remarried to Agnes Meck born 7 January 1705, daughter of Jerg Meck .

Eberhard Volmer petitioned in S.C. for bounty on 26 October 1752 stating that he had a wife and four children: Catherine 20; John about 18; Mary 6 ½; and Jacob, about 9 years old. They had arrived on the ship "Caledonia" at Charleston and he had paid Messrs Austin and Lawrence their freight (Council Journal Vol 20, p. 449). He obtained a 300 acre bounty grant on waters of Crims Creek southeast of St. John's Lutheran Church, Pomaria. Old land records show that his son, John Fulmer, was later owner of this land grant.

Death: Bef 1790 in Newberry, South Carolina (then Crim's Creek settlement)

Emigration: via Rotterdam on April 14, 1752 & arrived in South Carolina in Oct, 1752

Eberhard's petition for land, made in the name "Everard Volmer", was recorded on October 30, 1752 in Charleston. In the petition it was stated that he had shipped himself at Rotterdam on board the Caledonia, commanded by Captain Alex. Hervie, on the encouragement given to foreign Protestants, and had paid his freight. On January 9, 1755 George II granted "Unto Everard Volmar his heirs and assignes a plantation of land" containing 300 acres in Dutch Fork (an area between the Broad and Saluda Rivers, and to the northwest of present Columbia).

• Note: In 1754 Eberhard and some of his former Unterhausen neighbors established St. John's Church, which was Lutheran, in Dutch Fork.