Complex sentence: William Hays's vocation of ministering to rural areas took him from parish, so as a child, Lee lived in several towns in Arkansas and Georgia and learned to sing sacred harp music in his father's church.
Split into simpler sentences: William Hays's vocation of ministering to rural areas took him from parish to parish, so as a child, Lee lived in several towns in Arkansas and Georgia. He learned to sing sacred harp music in his father's church.