They told CNN's Jane Arraf that the graves are at least 12 years old.
Church officials said the bones from the graves have been collected and will be reinterred.
The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
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The graves were scattered randomly, many with no date, no name, marked only unknown.
Nearby residents told CNN's Jane Arraf that the graves are at least 12 years old.
She said she saw nothing wrong when she last visited the graves two days before.
On this Memorial Day weekend, the graves will be visited and decorated with flowers and flags.
She's a hypochondriac who finds comfort in a local cemetery where she tends the graves of strangers.
Some of the graves are owned by Shropshire Council and some are still tended by family members.
The headquarters of the Sheffield project will be at the Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre at Norton.
Anyone who reads the story as they stand beside the graves cannot fail to be moved by it.
The St Aubert cemetery contains the graves of 435 Commonwealth soldiers killed in battle between 1917 and 1918.
There was no evidence of damage to the graves themselves, only the headstones, the British Foreign Office said.
The graves of 32 other military personnel are also buried at Whitstable Cemetery.
Michael Rafferty said his son had unwittingly dug the graves at Beasley's direction.
Also troubling: Illinois law doesn't protect the graves of pets from being disturbed.
One of the graves, without a headstone, was more recent than the others.
The first minister will visit the graves of the Commonwealth war dead in Liveramentu Cemetery, the main cemetery in Colombo.
He will be buried in Novo-Devichy Cemetery, which also holds the graves of his teachers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.
People came and went among the graves but did not come to this one, although flowers were left from time to time.
Though a military cemetery since 1817, not all the graves are uniform.
At the nearby graveyard, some of the original rocks used to identify the graves still remain, with crudely hand-etched names engraved at the time.
And some of the graves were marked by nothing more than gray, worn down rocks that poked up in a semi-circle like neglected, decaying teeth.
However, the villagers remain defiant and refuse to level the graves.
The website also provides the personal details of each of the men and two women who are buried in the graves, including next of kin where known.
That would go some way to solving the mystery of whether the stone was erected to mark the graves, or whether the pots were put in place afterwards.
Families will devote a day to cleaning the graves, decorating them with candles and flores del muerto (flowers of the dead), having picnics and dancing to mariachi bands.
On Wednesday night, Channel 10's Arab affairs commentator Zvi Yehezkeli ran a depressing report on the status of the graves of Jewish sages buried in the Muslim world.
The plan for the Graves site includes a replacement swimming pool, additional tennis courts, gymnastics and outdoor football, an extended fitness facility and associated rehabilitation and research services.
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