Complex sentence: Varina Howell Davis died at age 80 of double pneumonia in her room at the Hotel Majestic in New York, on October 16,1906, survived by only one of her six children and by several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Split into simpler sentences: Varina Howell Davis died at age 80 of double pneumonia in her room at the Hotel Majestic in New York, on October 16,1906. She was survived by only one of her six children and by several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.