Complex sentence: His father was a veteran of the Confederate Army, and the younger Watkins was educated in Bell Buckle, Tennessee before attending college at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, where he graduated in 1910 with a bachelors of arts.
Split into simpler sentences: His father was a veteran of the Confederate Army, and the younger Watkins was educated in Belle Buckle, Tennesse before attending college. For college he attended Washington and Lee University in Virginia where he graduated in 1910 with a bachelors of arts.