Colter

… name was Colter. He was one of the church sextons. To be brutally frank, the man was a gravedigger. “Colter,” he said. “What can I do for you?” Colter spoke hesitantly. “It’s the noises, sair. The noises in the churchyard. Her Ladyship rests not easy, sair, so she doesn’t, and I’m afeard. I—” Geoffrey felt as if someone had punched him in the midsection. He pulled in a gasp of air and hot pain needled …

Church sexton who alerts Geoffrey to sounds from Misery's grave in the embedded novel.