I'm going on a crazy whim here, but I have found information about a Phebe Walton that I am going to follow through with. My reasoning is that she was an Atkinson, and Atkinson is a name listed for one of the sponsors at a Wilcox family baptism. (See below).
Sacramental Registers at St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia, PA, January to December 1800.
p. 327
Scravendyke, same date*, by the same**, James, born Jan. 15th, of Peter Scravendyke and his wife Mary Wilcox [ought to be Willcox]; sponsors--George Atkinson and Prudence Slater.*3 Feb 1800, **Rev. L. Neale
These sponsors are the "godparents" so to speak, and are usually chosen by the parents, so there is obviously some connection. I'm pretty sure that Prudence Slater is Mary Willcox Scravendyke's mother, which would stand to reason that George Atkinson is also a relative.
Within that line of thinking, here is a link to "A geneological and personal history of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Volume 1".
http://books.google.com/books?id=-nEHRwRAwxAC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=walton+bucks+county&source=bl&ots=dZETkCOcuj&sig=0VqUhJPX8FpEg8tm49MjU-YFBRA&hl=en&ei=Oq9mTqyxBezJsQLD3JCjDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=walton&f=false
Wm. D. Kartchner also mentions in his diary that when his father dies on 2 April 1826, "Our connections came from Philadelphia and Bucks Co., to the funeral, which was a large attendance of carriages."
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