One of Murphy's Law of Genealogy...
The only record you find for your great-grandfather is that his property was sold at a sheriff's sale for insolvency.
[S738] E-mail from Jeffrey Grimes to Wendel Voigt, Grimes, Jeffrey, (E-mail: xdakotakid [ a t ] yahoo [ d o t ] com and JGrimes [ a t ] pcli [ d o t ] com), [Neary p. 454], 15 Nov 2004.