Complex sentence: When she died in 1935 of sepsis from a large neck carbuncle (which young Jackie had tried to lance), Gleason was 19, he had nowhere to go, and he had 36 cents to his name.
Split into simpler sentences: When she died in 1935 of sepsis from a large neck carbuncle (which young Jackie had tried to lance), Gleason was 19. He had nowhere to go, and he had 36 cents to his name.