The commented out lines caused the crash on graceful restart;

<VirtualHost 66.232.107.158>
ServerAlias thepotterypadandmore.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@thepotterypadandmore.com
DocumentRoot /home/potteryp/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/thepotterypadandmore.com-bytes_log
ServerName www.thepotterypadandmore.com
#ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/potteryp/public_html/cgi-bin/
#Directory </home/potteryp/public_html/cgi-bin>
#       Options +ExecCGI
#</Directory>

User potteryp
Group potteryp
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/thepotterypadandmore.com combined
ErrorLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/pottery-errorlog
</VirtualHost>