Pioneer L.H. Hobbs arrived in this area about 1850 and helped establish the community. He owned 320 acres that included this site, and when the King family buried their two-year-old daughter here, it became the first known use of the burial ground. The oldest documented grave is that of Robert A. Youngblood, who died in 1863. Levin Collins bought the 320 acres in 1865, and the next year his son-in-law John Tidmore died from lingering maladies incurred during the Civil War. John Tidmore's widow, Martha Elizabeth, Levin Collins's daughter, moved with her four children into her parents' home, and in 1872 she bought the eastern half of their land, including the cemetery. She died later that year and was buried here with her family, and the graveyard came to bear the Tidmore name. The three surviving Tidmore children and their spouses later lived on adjoining lands near the cemetery, and George W. Tidmore and his children operated a cotton gin. Members of the Tidmore family became well-known in the community and were buried here, while L.H. Hobbs and his descendants also remained prominent, reflected in Hobbs school and Hobbs Missionary Baptist Church about two miles north. The land here was eventually deeded as a cemetery, and in 1933 a Hobbs descendant sold three more acres for one dollar to the Tidmore Cemetery Association. Twelve veterans of the army of the Confederacy and many veterans of World War I and World War II are buried here, and the cemetery continues to serve descendants of pioneer families and other community members.