The Town Cemetery is located on Main St. next to the post office and across the street from the Civil War memorial.

This cemetery had its humble beginnings on December 9, 1793 when voted upon at a town meeting "that the town purchase as much land about the meeting-house as will be sufficient for a burying-ground and other public uses."  It was then voted that John Watts, John Andrews, Archibald Anderson, Joseph Copeland & Col. Thomas Starrett be a committee to purchase said land for the town.

The land that the Town Cemetery or "Old Yard" was built upon was sold by William Lermond to Daniel Dunbar, the Town treasurer on December 12, 1793, registered June 4, 1794 in the Lincoln County Courts. William had previously given land to the town for a public common. It was noted in the Annals of Warren by Cyrus Eaton "As if hastening to occupy this newly appointed resting-place, great numbers of children were carried off, this season, by the scarlet fever, also known as "throat distemper." 

The yard started in this southern section and expanded towards Main Street, south of where the meeting house once stood. But in May 1794, when the town voted to fence the old burying-ground (Old Settler's Graveyard), with pine logs and the new one with a stone wall and board fence, it was restricted to a line running square from the corner of the wall near the hearse-house, according to the purchase. By this restriction, the graves of several children (presumably victims of the scarlet fever outbreak), were left outside on the common area and the town voted "to remove such of them whose relations were willing, within the said limits." This was done, but some were allowed to remain, and the graves of Mr. Sylvester's children were enclosed by a fence, which remained on the common for many years. This may have prompted the legend that graves were disturbed and built upon when the road was put in on the southern side of the Veterans Monument. These may have been the children of Benjamin Sylvester, an early business owner and clothier who lived in Warren for five years before moving to Newcastle. No death records for these children have been found, nor is the location of their graves known now.

On September 21, 1840, the townspeople voted to take part of the commons to enlarge the graveyard and a new fence and ornamental trees were planted. This makes up what is now the northern section of the cemetery.

The grounds of which were described by Cyrus Eaton in the Annals of Warren as being "in some respects, ill adapted to its purpose; a ledge in some places approaches too near the surface, and in others the soil is not sufficiently dry. It had never been cultivated, and no pains were taken to level its uneven surface.

The cemetery is broken up into three sections; north, center and south. There is also another section of the cemetery adjacent to the southern portion, to the East, the Spear Family lots, originally owned by Wesley E. Spear. This cemetery was established in December of 1926 with four lots sold to family members by Wesley, who is also buried within. This section also includes a 14' easement road for vehicle access between the Spear lots and the Town Cemetery.