 The coffin was loaded on a hearse and carried to a gathering at Fairfield; much of the gathering was spent in silence. After the coffin was removed, the assembled began talking. Frazer recalled that each person remembered Cope differently, and "Few men succeeded so well in concealing from anyone ... all the sides of his multiform character." Osborn, intending to follow the coffin to the graveyard, was instead pulled aside by Collins and taken to the reading of Cope's will — Osborn and Cope's brother-in-law John Garrett were named executors. Cope gave his family a choice of his books, with the remainder to be sold or donated to the University of Pennsylvania. After debts were handled, Cope left small bequests to friends and family — Anna Brown and Julia received $ 5000 each, while the remainder went to Annie. Cope's estate was valued at $ 75,327, not including additional revenue raised by sales of fossils to the American Museum of Natural History, for a total of $ 84,600. Some specimens preserved in alcohol made their way to the Academy of Natural Sciences, including a few Gordian worms.
