Some further ideas:
Cemeteries 3. Any anyone link this to Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, or to Dorothea in Middlemarch (didn't she proof-read for Casaubon?)
Also,, what about William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, for Cemeteries 1? Don't know if this was written too early for a power drill, but book revolves around the death of Addie Bundren, whose body is taken back to Jefferson to be buried with her family. Holes are drilled in her coffin, but probably with a manual drill!