"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9CH-3CS : accessed 1 August 2018), Richard M Wells in household of Julia Wells, Magisterial District 3, Corbin Precinct Corbin town, Whitley, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 137, sheet 16A, family 289, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,555.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHPP-ZMX : accessed 1 August 2018), Richard M Wells, South Corbin, Whitley, Kentucky, United States; citing ED 288, sheet 2B, line 86, family 41, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 602; FHL microfilm 1,820,602.