Complex sentence: He married Julia Higgins, a.k.a. Julia Egans or Egars, on January 20 1840, a woman who is said to have been as short as he was tall-so much so that when out walking she was too short to even reach his arm.
Split into simpler sentences: He married Julia Higgins, a.k.a. Julia Egans or Egars, on January 20,1840. She is said to have been as short as he was tall-so much so that when out walking she was too short to even reach his arm.