Complex sentence: Born to a pioneering Western Maryland farming family (the Doub (family)) in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1924, she spent her early years in Boonsboro, Maryland, where her father's ancestors had settled in the eighteenth century and subsequently farmed continuously.
Split into simpler sentences: Born to a pioneering Western Maryland farming family (the Doub (family)) in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1924. She spent her early years in Boonsboro, Maryland, where her father's ancestors had settled in the eighteenth century and subsequently farmed continuously.