Adelaide Yager Rameson

Adelaide Claudia Cox Yager Rameson Taylor (January 20, 1892 – December 9, 1973) was an American tennis player from Kansas City, Missouri, later based in Los Angeles, California.

Adelaide Yager Rameson, from a 1919 publication.

Early life

Adelaide Claudia Cox was from Missouri, the daughter of Fred Millard Cox (1864–1908) and Maude Elizabeth Vrooman Cox (1870–1928).^[1]

Career

Adelaide Yager of Kansas City^[2][3] won the lawn tennis singles competition at Missouri Valley Women's Championships in 1914.^[4] In the same year, she was runner-up to Marjorie Hires at the Central West Women's Championship in Kansas City, Missouri.^[5] Yager was selected as the top-ranked woman tennis player in Kansas City in 1914.^[6] In 1915 she was singles runner-up at the Missouri Valley Women's Championships.^[7] She was ranked in the top 30 women tennis players in America in 1915.^[8]

As Adelaide Rameson, she was Great Plains and Central States tennis singles champion and women's doubles and mixed doubles runner-up in 1918.^[9] She was also runner-up in singles and won in women's doubles at the Los Angeles City Championships,^[10][11] and runner-up at the national level at the 1918 U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships, defeated by Carrie Neely.^[12] She was ranked as one of the top ten American women's lawn tennis players in 1919.^[13][14]

Personal life

Adelaide Cox married William Watson Yager in 1912. They had children together, William (1912–1982) and Ramona (1916–2001), before they divorced. She married Julius Alfred Rasmussen, a Danish man also known as Jack Rameson, in 1918. They had two sons together, Jack (1919–1961) and Fred (1922–1965). She was widowed when Jack Rameson died in 1944;^[15] she married a third time, to Paul Taylor, in 1945. She died in Glendale, California in 1973, age 81.^[16]