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Girl Killed By Tombstone While Playing In Church CemeteryDEEP GAP, N.C. – Here’s a tragic story out of North Carolina where a 4-year-old girl was killed last Friday after a tombstone fell on top of her.

While waiting on Vacation Bible School classes to begin, Peyton Elizabeth Townsend and her older sister were with several other children playing in the backyard of Mt. Paran Baptist Church. The church’s backyard doubles as a small cemetery where about two dozen people are buried.

As the children were running around the graves, a stone cross–estimated to weigh anywhere from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds–somehow fell off a tombstone and landed on top of Peyton’s chest.

Peyton’s parents where there at the time of the freak accident. Her father is a paramedic, her mother a nurse, and both of them frantically tried saving their daughter’s life after moving Peyton from underneath the stone slab. Peyton was airlifted to Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee where she later died.

Seth Miller, a member of the church, said the grave belonged to his cousin.

“There’s no more smiling or thinking of good things after this,” said Miller. “You’re just thinking, ‘Oh my God, someone died here.”

The Rev. Rick Cornejo said counselors will be available for the other children who witnessed the accident. 1st Sgt. Gary McClelland of the N.C. Highway Patrol said the family is ”strong in their faith. They’re strong people. They’ll get through it.”

Her mother posted on her Facebook page Saturday night, thanking everyone for their condolences and prayers.

“Thank you for all your prayers, we can feel you lifting us up,” she posted.

Peyton’s funeral was held last night. According to Peyton’s obituary, she loved bright colors, Barbie dolls, and playing dress-up with her sister.

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  • Gee

    This is so tragic…. :o (

  • Lena60

    How sad and weird.That poor baby :(

  • kimbev69

    Omg this is so sad i cannot imagine the pain everyone is feeling

  • CT

    HOLD THE PHONE –  “There’s no more smiling or thinking of good things after this,” said Miller. “You’re just thinking, ‘Oh my God, someone died here.”  IT WAS A CEMETERY.    I don’t know about anyone else but I typically don’t feel like skipping through the grass and drinking wine when I go to the cemetery.  OK, I use any excuse to drink,  but that is not the point I am trying to make here.

    I feel especially sorry for the parents though to have the abilities to possibly save a person and not to be able to do so with your own child must make a horrible experience even more devastating.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    May this baby rest in peace  … condolences to the family. 

  • Angelfelina

    Very sad, but thankfully just an accident. When you consider the usual subject matter in these pages (especially when it comes to little girls), it wasn’t a bad way to go… :(

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     ??? – I guess the persons comment kinda ticked you off ? I thought it sounded dumb too … but no ones perfect I guess;I give the idiot a pass.

  • OutOfBubbleGum

    Second person to die on “the cross.”  Them things are dangerous.

  • Sam

    What a freak accident. Talk about no way that child was going to be saved – even with two trained health professionals right there she still didn’t make it. Hopefully the parents can get some strength from their religion – ‘God’ wanted their little angel SO much and that’s why he took her. RIP little girl.

  • CT

    I have actually threatened my family that if something ever happens to me and they talk to the press about me – I will find my way back from the beyond and they will be very sorry – that’s not a joke either.    No worries they will say something stupid about me because they had better not be saying anything at ALL.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     I get you … but she was 4 years old – this was tragic.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Sometimes it’s not God,but the other guy.When bad things happen (not speaking of you Sam,but in general) people are always saying “Why did God ?”,or “If there is a God,why did he ? ” … God may allow the Devil to do certain things,but that is not the same as God doing those things himself.The Devil is running around loose for now – but his time to be caged will indeed come.

  • http://www.last.fm/user/runawayuniverse runawayuniverse

     I’d rethink my religious beliefs if the god I loved wanted my child so bad, that he thought the best way to go about taking her was by tossing a 1000 pound stone on her chest. 

  • Sam

    I don’t particularly believe in either entity, hence the apostrophes around god. But considering their family are saying this is such a religious couple, i can imagine them seeing it this way.

  • Sam

    I don’t particularly believe in either entity, hence the apostrophes around god. But considering their family are saying this is such a religious couple, i can imagine them seeing it this way.

  • sugarpie

    :’^( 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     See “runawayuniverse” just proved my point for me.

  • OutOfBubbleGum

    Shouldn’t a tombstone come with an eternal-lifetime guarantee?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sarah-Silcox-Martin/1460419094 Sarah Silcox Martin

    There is a cemetery behind my house and my 5 year old loves to play there. It is quiet there with a lot of room to run and places to hide. Now I am rethinking letting him play there. I feel so sorry for Peyton’s parents.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     It’s actually not that uncommon for the ground to shift in older cemeteries – so yes you may want to rethink the whole cemetery playground thing …

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sarah-Silcox-Martin/1460419094 Sarah Silcox Martin

    Maybe he went there and remembered all the fun times with his cousin? I know I enjoy walking through the very old cemetery where my dad is buried. We remember the good times we had with my dad and because the cemetery is wooded and so beautiful we truly enjoy being there. I don’t know, I kinda get what he was trying to say I guess.

  • CT

    I wish I had a type of Dad that I could had felt that way about but it wasn’t to be so I can’t relate.  I love/loved him but have spent years trying not to remember a lot of crap so I don’t get the warm and fuzzy going to his resting place. 

  • Andyman

    Damn I have a four year old little girl and I can’t imagine something like this happening to her.  I’m sure the parents are devastated.  What a sad story.

  • Andyman

    You know what I think happens after you die?  I think it is a hell of a lot like your remember it being before you were born.  nothing.

  • LeaveMeBe

    Liked for your comment about the parents and their professions making this even more tragic. :(

    As for what the guy said about his cousin and the cemetary, I get it, although it did sound strange. Cemetaries are where dead people are but not where they died.

  • JohnQknowitall

    Sometimes it seems lucky just to get through childhood unscathed.

  • http://twitter.com/tinalib13 Tina Wech

    This poor baby. RIP

  • EveryVillainIsLemons

    And this would be why I don’t let my kid play in cemeteries.  Hell, even I tread carefully in them because I’m always afraid that some heavy piece of masonry’s going to land on me.

    RIP, kiddo.

  • http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

    Damn that just really sucks all the way around!!!
    It also adds new fears to “don’t walk on anothers grave”….
     

  • Shar G’z

    Maybe it was one of those dead fuckers, I’m sure it annoys the hell out the them when kids run around there graves…

    R.I.P. Peyton.

  • sherrdbw

    I had a very abusive father so I know exactly how you feel.

  • sherrdbw

    I hope that no one tells the family that this was “God’s plan”. I hate when people say that. I believe in God in a sense, but I don’t know how to explain it.

  • newstarshipsmell

    Man, I don’t know what’s up with all the long faces around here. When I was 4, I would have gladly accepted death if it would have gotten me out of Vacation Bible School.

  • JGo555

    And THAT’S WHY I don’t fuck with cementaries. Didn’t Pet Cementary learn us anything?

  • Chinchillazilla

     Honestly, I think that if God is all-powerful and CAN stop the devil from killing people, and he doesn’t, it’s the same thing as doing it himself. It’s like God is a neighbor who doesn’t call the cops when he hears a child being tortured.

  • Chinchillazilla

    I happen to agree with you on the “nothing” point, but I don’t remember a lot of things that happened after I was born, either, and I have prettty good evidence that I actually still existed during that gap.  :P

  • Heather_Habilatory

     One of my friends just had a miscarriage, and she told me today she is sick and tired of people telling her “oh it’s  God’s plan,” or “God must have needed an angel!”

  • Heather_Habilatory

     Especially with them watching.

  • Heather_Habilatory

     You asshole! Making me laugh about a dead 4 year old. uuugh.

  • newstarshipsmell

    I remember one summer, the “teachers” for VBS made all the kids lie flat on their backs and close their eyes, so they could all “feel the earth spinning.” I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade; I remember having learned before then that it’s been firmly established by science that it is in fact not possible to sense the planet’s rotation, but never mind that. Praise Jesus! The worst part was, they insisted that this “skill” of sensing the rotation was something easy that anyone could learn in a few minutes, so everyone was required to continue doing it until they supposedly felt it. I was forced to lie and claim that yes I felt the earth spinning, just so we could get on with whatever other BS they had in store for us. So I learned early on that dishonesty and self-delusion seemed to be a requirement for practising my “faith.”

  • Heather_Habilatory

    Sometimes, I fell the earth spinning. But I’m a little bonkers. Soooo…

  • newstarshipsmell

    The Lord moves in mysterious ways.

  • Sam

    Me, too. Of course it had nothing to do with the copious amounts of alcohol consumed prior…

  • newstarshipsmell

    Heh heh, I should’ve asked them for some communion wine “to help me feel the planet spin.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     My Dad sucked as well.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    Sometimes it is where they died … as is illustrated by this case;and yes I know those incidents are few and far between.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Reading this made me feel sad for you Andy – ‘mostly cause I like you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Exactly.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    NOOOOO !!!! That’s just not right.God is all powerful,but part of what makes him so great is the fact that he gives us “free will,and does not constantly interfere in the worlds goings on … God does not make man his puppets.As for Satan he serves a purpose,and has an appointed time in the future to be dealt with.

  • Andyman

    Awww Ced, it’s all good.  I mean I live by the 10 commandments and all but I’m just not convinced that our life on this planet is for preparation for something bigger later.  It just doesn’t make sense to me.  Of course I’m not sure what the hell we’re doing here to begin with.  Anyone else have a clue?  :)

  • Andyman

    lol.  Me either!

  • CT

     Zombie Apocalypse – it’s all starting to come together.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     WOW – You honestly flunked earth spinning ???   O^O

  • newstarshipsmell

    To avoid the temptation of facebook?

  • newstarshipsmell

    And thank God for Satan, and whatever purpose he’s serving, since what would make life worth living without all the fantastic things he’s provided us like the sexual revolution, recreational drugs, heavy metal, dungeons & dragons, the GTA games, R-rated movies and all the rest?

  • sherrdbw

    When people say that, I feel like saying “FUCK YOU!” and punching them in the face. And then I ask them if it’s God’s plan for babies to be raped or children beaten to death. People usually don’t have anything to say after that.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

    Yep.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

    I hate when people said that about my children. “God took her back.” That doesn’t make sense, if he wanted to keep her then why would he have let her go in the first place? 

    From conception the only thing that is 100% certain is death, and it sucks but that’s how life works.

  • Athena

    I like that analogy.  But, then again, I got reamed recently for pointing out that, if God is as the Christians describe Him, he is a spiteful, jealous, violent deity who doesn’t give a good goddamn (pardon the double entendre) about his innocent minions.  :P

  • The_Yeti_Knows

    Old Pazuzu is laughin her ass off at all our greed…. If it feels good do it ? .. Isn’t that what Dr Ruth used to say ? Now that I think about it that crazy old bitch truly was the devil… good thing I bought her that surf and turf that night before she rocked my world… maybe my soul is safe for now.

  • newstarshipsmell

    I rather flunk that than flunk not blurting out my drag name to the entire internet ;)

  • LeaveMeBe

    I want to smack you so hard for making me laugh right now.

  • LeaveMeBe

    You see that look on my avatar’s visage? That’s how I’m looking at your avatar at the moment.

  • LeaveMeBe

    Hey, everyone can’t be a Christian. I mean, who would they have to save and feel superior to if it wasn’t for us heathen sinners? We all have a purpose, obviously. :P

  • LeaveMeBe

    I believe in God, but not Christianity’s GOD.

  • newstarshipsmell

    Go ahead and slap away, but please be careful to avoid my eyes. They’re extra sensitive this week.

  • LeaveMeBe

    I remember when I first saw the story of Noah and the Ark in cartoon version at VBS I had a panic attack and couldn’t sleep for days! It took a long time for my parents to understand that it literally traumatized me (along with the damn prayer I had to say about ‘dying before I wake’) to hear and watch that story. What kind of sickos teach 4 year olds about a God so vengeful and pissed that he hand picked a few to survive and blasted and destroyed the rest of the planet with a freaking flood? I was terrified he was going to get that mad again.

    And yes, you are an asshole for making me laugh. I’m going to have to smack you again.

  • Zazen

    And before you ask Ced… no, he’ll never let it die.

    (P.S. to tarsh OMG LOLOL)

  • Zazen

    Uh, as long as one of the ‘teachers’ didn’t offer to help you ‘feel the earth move.’ Because I hear that happens too.

  • http://twitter.com/Q_Jordon Quintin Jordon

    And where was god?

  • LeaveMeBe

    Zaz! I thought I smelled you on here today. :)

  • Heather_Habilatory

    Yeah, I ask them if it was God’s will that I be raped, and they don’t really have much to say after that. 

  • Heather_Habilatory

    Amen!

  • Zazen

    I’ve been lying low. I know I’m too much of an insensitive bastard of an atheist to do anything more than giggle here, so I’m keeping the lips zipped. (I do feel terrible for the girl and her family, but you know me: sick bitch)

  • CT

    Did you get colored contacts?  I thought I noticed a difference in your photo.  

  • LeaveMeBe

    Smack, my dear, not slap. And I would never hit anyone in the head, that’s just rude and asking for an ass-whoopin’.

  • newstarshipsmell

    You may as well unzip the lips since you’re going to Hell regardless, right?

  • LeaveMeBe

    Oh. I’m sorry to hear you had a conscience attack. I hope you get over it soon. It’s not contagious is it? Do they have medicine to cure it or is it chronic? Can we still be friends? Damn. Hearing this just ruined my whole entire day. I’m going to cry.

  • Zazen

    I think I’ll be alright in a day or two. It’s all this overtime I’m putting in. It just sucks all the life out of me… not quite as effectively as a 1000lb stone cross does, but close.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/6TOSJEHMDMXPJH4WOANBPT5FQI Janessa

    That POOR little girl!  Whoever was supposed to be watching the kids and CLEARLY were too involved in their own selfish events should feel TERRIBLE for allowing this to happen!  For starters, a cemetery is NOT a safe place to play, as there could be open graves, sharp stones, and older sites can easily collapse if too much weight is on them!  On top of that you have something like this which could be a risk.  Whatever irresponsible and to be perfectly honest DISRESPECTFUL ADULT allowed the kids to play there should be plagued with guilt until their dying day for this.  She will be in my prayers.

  • sherrdbw

    Another cliche I hate is “God doesn’t give us more than we can handle”. Do people not know how stupid they sound?

  • sherrdbw

    At my Grandmother’s funeral, my brother and his wife let their kids run around the cemetery, assuming that other people at the service would keep an eye on them. I kept having to stop the kids from constantly pulling flowers from other graves and then my nephew ran over to my Granny’s casket, pushed a button and lower it into the grave. My brother and sil just laughed. Horrible parents.

  • Andyman

    That’s part of it. lol