Joseph Taylor would give up playing in 1877 at still only 26 years old but his connection with Queen's Park and therefore football continued. For 1878-9 he was elected President of the club. And outwith the game in the Gorbals, in 1879 in the Gorbals and recorded as a Mercantile Clerk he married Agnes Miller, with whom he would have four children, all sons, all of whom were born from 1881 to 1885 and now in Langside within a stone's throw of the Queen's Park itself and the first and second Hampdens. However, Taylor's health was failing. Like so many Scots, indeed, footballers of his and later generations he had contracted tuberculosis, even travelling to New Zealand to an attempt to mend his lungs but to no avail. By 1888 he was back in Scotland, living once more in Langside and it was there he died that same year of the consumption plus pleurisy, aged just thirty-seven. In his honour The Spiders and neighbouring Third Lanark, where he had also been present on foundation in 1872, would play a fund-raising match for his wife and young family. 7,000 spectators turned out, raising perhaps upward of £350, one hundred times that amount today, to which Queen's Park in a gesture of the esteem in which he was held added fifty more, £5,000 in current money.