The western one is a burial mound and can be dug up without a shovel.
Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm In the northwest barn, up the stairs, on top of a crate. The animals are suffering and with nobody to take care of them, a bullet to the head seems merciful (not to mention, it provides the necessary ingredients for delicious steaks). Fallout: New Vegas > Guides > Lynx's Guides. Camp Guardian is located at Guardian Peak. Camp Forlorn Hope is located at Forlorn Hope Spring. The animals in the corrals and barns are a mixture of malnourished brahmin and bighorners, with stunted brahmin and bighorner calves accompanying them. And now for other locations: Bitter Springs camp and Bitter Springs Recreational Area are located roughly along the path of the real-world Bitter Springs trail. The barns contain quite a bit of loot in the attics, including a copy of the Wasteland Survival Guide and a star cap. Their parents' graves are just beyond the wall - what remains of it - and can be pilfered. The remains of the family home face Searchlight, with the burned body of the last Matthews laying ignobly on trop of a pile of charred debris.
The farm is quite large, with two corrals to the south and two large barns in the northeast. Thus, the animals were left without a caretaker, to slowly die of starvation. This gave way to paranoia, which culminated in the last Matthews setting fire to their family home, in a desperate bid to escape the fiendish conspiracy by the ghoulifying animals. Lying, Congressional Style (Speech) Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch. Fear of ghouls resulted in questions whether animals could become ghouls as well. Guns and Bullets (Guns) Nevada Highway Patrol Station. After a moment, their mind started to crack. The last Matthews buried them both by the house and was left alone in maddening isolation.
They found them and were forced to gun both their mother and father in self defense. Their offspring, after waiting a few days, decided to go look for them in Searchlight. Their visit happened to coincide with the Legion attack on the Camp that unleashed radiation on the town and turned both of them into feral ghouls. It all ended when the parents left on a routine trip to get supplies from Camp Searchlight, trading steaks for necessities. A mother, a father, and a child, living a quiet life on the frontier. Once inhabited by a well-off family tending to herds of bighorners and brahmins, the Matthews family would have prospered under NCR rule.