Cisco RE1000 WiFi extender ethernet port question

Good morning - I have a RE1000 WiFi range extender which is unable to reach the far end of my house, an old barn with a thick stone wall in the middle (& the ADSL line enters at the other end of the building). I have tried various extender locations on both sides of this internal stone wall without consistent success.
A simple solution - IF the ethernet port is two-way - would be to run a 100ft long exterior Cat5 ethernet cable from my existing router to the far end of the house, into the RE1000 as its feed (as opposed to the RE1000 trying to pick up the WiFi signal from the router) & then any WiFi device at that far end of the house could connect via the WiFi signal from the ethernet-powered RE-1000.
Will this work, ie. will the RE1000 accept the ethernet signal as its source and transmit it onwards via its WiFi capabilities (or is the RE1000 ethernet port's only purpose to transmit wirelessly-received signals to a wired, non-WiFi-capable device ?) ?

The use of Ethernet port in RE1000:
"> Ethernet  (green) Using Ethernet cables (also called network
cables), this Ethernet port connects Ethernet network devices
to your wireless network.
The green light turns on when an Ethernet device is connected
and active on this port. The light flashes when the extender is
sending or receiving data over the Ethernet port.
Source:http://downloads.linksys.com/downloads/userguide/1224698283526/RE2000_UG_3425-01650B_Web.pdf

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