You’re correct, that is Alabama. A good method for differentiating it from Mississippi is that Alabama has mostly straight borders and Mississippi has a long wiggly border (the Mississippi river). Not sure if that’s actually helpful but it’s how I remember them.

They’d be pretty popular with the Runescape crowd, for whatever that’s worth.

Yup, he’s the second president from PA, the first is Buchanan.

Seems like they wanted the estate to pay, not the mother. Sounds pretty normal if that’s the case.