Complex sentence: Abandoned by his mother as an infant, he was raised in poverty by his grandparents in the Smoky Mountains until the age of five, when he was sent to the Governor Morehead School for the blind in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Split into simpler sentences: Abandoned by his mother as an infant, he was raised in poverty by his grandparents in the Smoky Mountains until the age of five. At the age of five, Milsap was sent to the Governor Morehead School for the blind in Raleigh, North Carolina.