Complex sentence: Mary Gish was born on September 16,1876 in Dayton, Ohio, as Mary Robinson McConnell and she was the mother of actresses Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish.
Split into simpler sentences: Mary Gish was born on September 16,1876, in Dayton, Ohio, as Mary Robinson McConnell. She was the mother of actresses Lillian and Dorothy Gish.