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Warsaw Pioneer Cemetery in Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York, was established in 1804. It "closed" in 1850 and was then subsumed into the Warsaw Cemetery. The original Pioneer section consisted of 2 acres of land. It was considered by Warsaw's citizens as the "old burying ground".
"Warsaw's first settlers had not chosen land for a cemetery. No doubt they were occupied with cutting timber, building log cabins and planting gardens. However, the death of Sterling Stearns' two-year old son in the spring of 1804 produced an urgent need for a place to bury the child. A few trees were cut away and a grave dug at about the center of what is now the old "Pioneer Cemetery." Having no lumber, the child's coffin was made from part of a wagon box. As it was a time of high water in the creek, the coffin was carried over the water on a log to the grave. In the fall of that same year, Nehemiah Fargo's young son who had drowned in the Oatka Creek was buried nearby. A third burial was that of Dwight Noble, the first adult to die in January 1807."