James Fenimore Cooper's Will

Mid-Michigan, where I grew up, is more famous for breakfast cereal than for literary matters.*  That's why the following (from today's Battle Creek Enquirer) came as such a shock to me:

100 years ago today, 1905: The last will and testament of famous author James Fenimore Cooper, whose "Leatherstocking Tales" had interested the youth of the country for generations, was found in a probate court vault in Kalamazoo. Cooper, who died in 1851, had owned property in Kalamazoo. It was while looking up the abstract for a piece of the property that a judge discovered the will, which was probated in Otsego, N.Y.

*To be fair, Battle Creek is the setting for T. Coraghessan Boyle's The Road to Wellville, and my hometown of Marshall is the birthplace of the wonderful John Bellairs.