He was the son of Anderson Springston and Sallie Eliot, Cherokees who walked the Trail of Tears from Gunter's Landing, Alabama on the Tennessee River, some 600 miles to Indian Territory.
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Two years later, he accepted an important appointment as interpreter in the United States court at Fort Smith, presided over by Judge Isaac C. Parker, the infamous “Hanging Judge of Indian Territory.”
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