On August 19, 1916, African Americans living in the Jonesville and Newberry communities were lynched after Constable George Wynne, Dr. L.G. Harris, and G.H. Blount went to Boisey Long's home in Jonesville at 2:00 a.m. to serve a warrant and question him about stolen hogs. Gunfire was exchanged after Wynne and Harris entered the home, wounding all three men, and Long escaped while the others were taken for medical help. Wynne died on the train to a Jacksonville hospital, and because he was related to the Dudleys, a large local family, a mob formed at their home. While searching for Long, the mob terrorized other African Americans in the area, many related to him, and shot James Dennis to death on suspicion that he was hiding Long. With help from local law enforcement, the mob rounded up five African Americans and held them in the Newberry jail: Dennis' brother Gilbert and sister Mary, a pregnant mother of four; Stella Young, Long's partner and mother of his son; Andrew McHenry, Stella's brother; and the Rev. Joshua Baskin, a farmer and pastor. The mob took them from the jail to the Newberry picnic grounds at W. Newberry Road and County Road 235 and hanged them. The lynching became national news and drew men, women, and children from miles around to view the bodies. On August 21, 1916, Boisey Long surrendered to the Rev. Squire Long and was turned over to Alachua County Sheriff P.G. Ramsey in Gainesville; fearing additional mob violence, Ramsey transferred him to a jail in Jacksonville. An Alachua County grand jury investigated the lynch mob on September 6th but did not find anyone guilty, and nobody was ever punished. Long was indicted for the murder of George Wynne, convicted after seven minutes of jury deliberation, and sentenced to death. The headstones of three victims—Andrew McHenry, James Dennis, and the Rev. Joshua Baskin—are in the cemetery of Pleasant Plain United Methodist Church, whose founding traces to 1860, and many victims' descendants still live in the Jonesville community and attend the church.