Found Deceased MS - Gracelyn Vick, 6, Harrison County, 13 April 2025

[sassyblue]

Sadly, the same engineering genius that can keep even ants out keeps oxygen out and carbon monoxide in. Tight gasket seal. Probably the threading that makes such a lockseal work renders it impossible to reverse the process from beneath, no match for a six year old, powered by panic and power-impaired by dark and diminished oxygen, but impossible for anyone, due to a design flaw, not unlike trunks of old which couldn't be opened from within, only because no one foresaw the critical need.

Not a submarine hatch which is designed to be locked and opened from either side, but in general, the barrel lid probably had a hatch similar in theory. By half. Perfect for food storage, fatal for egress.

Having recently lost my only child, my beloved daughter (at 28), my heart is broken for this mother. Such impossible loss. I share her pain.

JMO

So devastating Megnut! May your memories remain vivid and the love everlasting until you meet again.

 

[swanniee11]

@Megnut I'm truly sorry for you loss. May God bless all of you during such a difficult time.

 

[ReadySet]

Sadly, the same engineering genius that can keep even ants out keeps oxygen out and carbon monoxide in. Tight gasket seal. Probably the threading that makes such a lockseal work renders it impossible to reverse the process from beneath, no match for a six year old, powered by panic and power-impaired by dark and diminished oxygen, but impossible for anyone, due to a design flaw, not unlike trunks of old which couldn't be opened from within, only because no one foresaw the critical need.

Not a submarine hatch which is designed to be locked and opened from either side, but in general, the barrel lid probably had a hatch similar in theory. By half. Perfect for food storage, fatal for egress.

Having recently lost my only child, my beloved daughter (at 28), my heart is broken for this mother. Such impossible loss. I share her pain.

JMO

I am so sorry for your loss.

 

[Teche]

@Megnut I’m sorry to hear that loss your beloved child.

 

[Gemmie]

Today was Gracelyn's funeral.

At the funeral service, those who eulogized her remembered her as that barefoot little girl who, given a stick, some rocks, dirt, something to climb on, and the woods, would have a joy-filled day.

She was also that fun-loving little girl who’d swipe some of her mamma’s spices and take them outside to whip something up in the dirt as a makeshift meal that, of course, no one actually ate.

And that feisty little spitfire with a love of adventure, and that same child who could try to find a fun way to get you back if you made her mad.

That’s precisely the kind of thing her mother, Vickie, got to experience firsthand.

There was that day Gracelynn’s mama made her mad, so her daughter grabbed a bucket of her mother’s screws, nuts and bolts and buried them on the farm, then drafted a map for her mom to try to find them.

And she was the same little gem whose death has left those who knew and loved her in unspeakable mourning.

Read more at: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article304524006.html#storylink=cpy

 

[SMK777]

Poor little girl and this poor family.
Mom has lost all three of her little ones in two or so years?

That's such horrific bad luck. It's uncanny. I can't imagine the mother's pain.

 

[mlhenn]

After Her 6-Year-Old Vanished from Their Yard, Mom Screamed When She Was Found Inside Barrel Nearby (Exclusive)

Gracelynn Vick's aunt is paying tribute to the 6-year-old girl whose tragic death last month rocked her family and their Mississippi community

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May 1 2025