Eva Clark (also known as Eva Howard, Eva Adair, and Eva Kelley) was a headlining aerialist and circus performer. She was shot in the abdomen by her estranged husband, Lum "Roser" Clark, after a show with Cole Bros. World-Famed Triple Railroad United Shows on September 6, 1906, in Staunton, Virginia, and died on October 1, 1906, from surgical complications.[1] In the years prior to her death, newspapers referred to Eva as the "Queen of the Air".[2]