Complex sentence: Charlotte W. Hawes was an American composer, lecturer and musical educator, born in Wrentham, Mass. She comes of old Puritan stock, her ancestors on the father's side having settled in Massachusetts in 1635.
Split into simpler sentences: Charlotte W. Hawes was an American composer, lecturer and musical educator, born in Wrentham, Massachusetts. She was of Puritan ancestry, her ancestors on the father's side having settled in Massachusetts in 1635.