Carol,
Can't give you any answers about a well pump, never had one... from mid teen's on to now, I've always been on city water, even where we live now, 6 miles out of town, we're on city water.... but in my early years our wells were always drawn wells... I've pull a many bucket of water out a well.... by the time I was about 10 that was my job, keep the water bucket full.
We did have one house out in west Texas that had a windmill pump, but I still had to draw water for the house.
I remember back when I was real little - before school age - we lived on the family homestead in east Texas, we had a well that was so shallow that Dad decided to deepen it... he pulled the water by hand out of the well to get enough water out so he could stand in the bottom and dig out another 6 foot .... I think the water was only about 10 feet below the surface.