Complex sentence: Born Viola Katherine Clemmons in Scotts County, Illinois, her father Seldon Perry was thirty-one and her mother Martha Isabell (née) Kilpatrick was twenty-nine.
Split into simpler sentences: Born Viola Katherine Clemmons in Scotts County, Illinois. Her father, Seldon Perry Clemmons was thirty-one and her mother Martha Isabell (née) Kilpatrick was twenty-nine.