They just made him sell.
"He wouldn't sell all.

He kept about eighty acres that was off in some piece by itself, but the three hundred that had the old brick house on it, and the big barn--that went, and Dryfoos bought him a place in Moffitt and moved into town to live on the interest of his money.

Just What he had scolded and ridiculed everybody else for doing.

Well, they say that at first he seemed like he would go crazy.

He hadn't anything to do.