 Sternberg , still prospecting for Cope that spring , was woken by a liveryman who relayed word from Annie that Cope had died three days earlier . Sternberg wrote in his memoirs , " I had lost friends before , and I had known what it was to bury my own dead , even my firstborn son , but I had never <unk> more deeply than I did over the news . " Cope 's Quaker funeral consisted of six men : Osborn , his colleague William Berryman Scott , Cope 's friend <unk> Frazer , son @-@ in @-@ law Collins , Horatio Wood , and Harrison Allen . The six sat around Cope 's coffin among the fossils and Cope 's pets , a tortoise and a Gila monster , for what Osborn called " a perfect Quaker silence ... an interminable length of time . " Anticipating the quiet , Osborn had brought along a Bible and read an excerpt from the Book of Job , ending by saying , " These are the problems to which our friend devoted his life . " 
