In October, 1826, Thomas Davis and his family arrived by wagon and ox team in Pike Co., Illnois. The following is a list of those known for certain to have been with them from accounts written by those on the wagon train:
Charles Adams, James Daniels, David Daniels, David Hoover, Joel Meachum, Zachariah Garrison, Joseph Garrison, Sally Sarah (Allen) Garrison, John Garrison, Joseph M. Gale, Ezekiel Clemmons, Lewis "Boone" Allen, John Morton, Peter Dillon, John Loop, Nicholas Jones, John Jones, Wm. McBride, Smith Aimes, Josiah Simms, William Kenney, Joshua Davis, Elijah Garrison.

[He was a veteran of the Black Hawk War (1832 - Illinois & Michigan Territory). He served as a Private in Captain Benjamin Barney's Pike County, Illinois, Company of the 3rd Regiment, commanded by Col. Abram B. DeWitt, of the Brigade of Mounted Volunteers commanded by Brig-General Whitesides. Mustered out of the service, at the mouth of Fox River, on May 27, 1832. Distant 250 miles from the place of enrollment.]
(K. Robinson, 2014)

My research in Illinois was at first directed to finding my 3rd great-grandfathers family, Thomas Davis. Thomas had left Illinois with his family and with many other Illinois relations traveled with his family across the Oregon Trail in 1853 as part of the so called "Rough and Ready" wagon train captained by William Gale #66329091 (Joseph's brother). That wagon train became historically significant when it nearly disappeared in the Cascade Mountains in late October while trying, with 300 hundred other wagons, to be the first to try a new route to the Willamette Valley. To the wagon trains surprise the road was not completed and they nearly all perished in the attempt. It became known as the "Lost Wagon Train of 1853."

Lewis Allen #56066515, grandson of the Boone's and known in the early community as "Boone" Allen the "marrying parson" of the 1830s, as revealed by old records in the office of County Clerk, O. D. Gicker. His first recorded wedding in this county is that of Joseph Gale to Elizabeth Garrison, July 21, 1831, the bride being Boone Allen's niece and a great granddaughter of the Jonathan Boone's.

On January 28, 1834, Lewis Allen officiated at the wedding of Zachariah Garrison to Miss Louisiana Davis (daughter of Thomas Davis), the groom being the son of Lewis Allen's sister, Sarah (Allen) Garrison, wife of Rev. Elijah Garrison, a pioneer Christian preacher of 1826, she being the granddaughter of Jonathan Boone and a great-grandaughter of Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone the parents of Daniel Boone.
Jonathan Boone Descendants-Illinois, by Dean Whitney, 1999

His parents were John Wesley Gale and Phebe Everett.
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Suggested edit: Hello Sue, here is some more information, if you wish to add to his site (I just copied it all from my notes):
Joseph Everett GALE
• Birth: ABT 1798 in Harrison Co., Kentucky
• Note: Lewis Allen, grandson of the Boone's and known in the early community as Boone Allen, was the "marrying parson" of the 1830’s, as revealed by old records in the office of County Clerk O. D. Gicker. Boone Allen's first recorded wedding in this county is that of Joseph Gale to Elizabeth Garrison, July 21, 1831, the bride being Boone Allen's niece and a great granddaughter of the Jonathan Boone's.

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glendasubyak/ch33.html
Source:
PAST AND PRESENT OF PIKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, BY CAPT. M. D. MASSIE
This Book Can Be Purchased Through The New Canton Historical Society
The Following Pages are Partial Transcriptions From the Book by Glenda Subyak:

MONTEZUMA TOWNSHIP
1. The call for volunteers for the Black Hawk war created no little consternation among the people. A meeting was called at Florence and John Batter shell, Joseph Gale, William Kenney, Joshua Davis, Smith Aimes, Josiah Simms and Edward Irons enlisted.

2. The first marriage so far as we can learn was that of Joseph Gale and Elizabeth Garrison, about the year 1830.
(www.pikecoilgenweb.org/books/1880History/446.html)
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1880 History of Pike County ILL by Chas. M. Chapman, page 446:
The call for volunteers for the Black Hawk war created no little consternation among the people. A meeting was called at Florence and John Battershe, ll, Joseph Gale, William Kenney, Joshua Davis, Smith Aimes, Josiah Simms and Edward Irons enlisted. The first two are still living.
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1840 United States Federal Census
Name: Joseph Gale
Township: Not Stated
County: Pike
State: Illinois
Source Citation: Year: 1840; Census Place: , Pike, Illinois; Roll: 67; Page: 103.
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1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Joseph Gale
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1798
Age in 1870: 72
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Coast Fork, Lane, Oregon
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: 1,000
Post Office: Cottage Grove

Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Coast Fork, Lane, Oregon; Roll: M593_1286; Page: 521; Image: 373.
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Father: John Wesley GALE , Sr b: DEC 1765 in Kent Co. Maryland
Mother: Phebe EVERITT b: ABT 1775 in Kent Co., Maryland
Marriage 1 Elizabeth GARRISON b: ABT 1812 in Posey Co., Indiana
• Married: 21 JUL 1831 in Milton, Pike Co., Illinois
• Married: 21 JUL 1831 in , Pike, Illinois 2
• Note:
Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860
Name: Joseph Gale
Spouse: Elizabeth Garrison
Date: 21 Jul 1831
County: Pike
State: Illinois
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Microfilm: 1314769
Children: from 1850 fed census Fox, Davis Co, Iowa
1. John E. Gale b. Abt 1832 IL, d. 1906 in California. He married Mary Jane Loveland and in 1860 he was working as a miner in Waldo, Oregon. He is buried in Mount Shasta Memorial Park, Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County, California.
2. Sarah E. Gale b. Abt 1837
3. Enoch W. Gale b. Abt 1839
4. Elias Gale b: Abt 1840 in Illinois
5. William R. Gale b: ABT 1843 in Illinois
6. Zachariah T. Gale Zachariah T GALE b: ABT 1845 in Illinois
7. Joseph A. Gale b: ABT 1847 in Illinois
8. Louis H. Gale b. Abt 1849
Contributor: Bill Hahn (47265360)