Sunday, November 06, 2011

Ace Hill Alsup, M.D. (1875-1955)

Dr. Ace Hill Alsup of Temple, Texas, died in his office on August 16, 1955 of a heart attack.  He was the son of Joseph F. Alsup and Martha Jane Baskin Alsup, born on April 18, 1875 in Wilson County, Tennessee.  He moved to Texas with his parents when he was a small child.  He attended the Wedemeyer Academy in Belton, the entered the University of Texas Medical Branch.  He completed his medical education at the Memphis Hospital Medical College, where he was valedictorian of his class in 1908.

After practicing briefly in Franklin, Dr. Alsup moved in 1910 to Little River where he practiced until 1928.  He then located in Temple and became a staff member of the King's Daughters Hospital.  He had been a member of the Texas Medical Association through the Bell County Medical Society continuously since 1910.  He was also a member of the Texas Railway and Traumatic Surgical Association, and was the local physician for the MKT Railroad.  He served as examining physician for Selective Service from 1940-1946 and again in 1954-1955.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Baptist Church.

Dr. Alsup married Miss Norma Blaylock on November 12, 1911 in Heidenheimer.  Survivors include Mrs. Alsup; a son Ace Hill Alsup Jr. of Temple, a daughter Mrs. Jasper H. Arnold of Houston; three sisters, Mrs. Henry Taylor and Mrs. Slade Yarrell of Temple and Mrs. Susan Furnace of Manville; and five grandchildren.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

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