Rachel Matheson is the wife of Ben Matheson and mother of Charlie and Danny Matheson.Before the Blackout :She was born in 1984. At some point, she married to Ben Matheson, a scientist. In 2007, they had a girl, Charlie, and three years later, a boy, Danny, who birth three month premature. His lungs are not ready and his parents decide to administrate him an experimental pre-natal treatment for kept him alive.After the Blackout :Seven years after the Blackout, Rachel turned herself in as a prisoner to her brother-in-law, Miles, who was at that time a General of the Militia and second to Bass Monroe, the Commanding General of the Monroe Republic. She stayed Sebastian's prisonner for the next eight years, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.