Complex sentence: Anna Evans was born in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1857, one of eight children of Henry Evans, an African-American undertaker and cabinetmaker, and Henrietta Leary Evans, a woman of French and Croatan descent.
Split into simpler sentences: Anna Evans was born in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1857. She was one of eight children of Henry Evans, an African-American undertaker and cabinetmaker, and Henrietta Leary Evans, a woman of French and Croatan descent.